Baby Fae chose to reveal herself in 1997. The Paul Simon song "The Boy in the Bubble" from the 1986 "Graceland" album references her in the lyrics. "Medicine is magical and magical is art / Thinking of the Boy in the Bubble / And the baby with the baboon heart". In the episode "I Love Lisa" of "The Simpsons", the school cafeteria serves beef hearts in honor of Valentine's Day. Bart Simpson puts one under his shirt, exclaiming "My baboon heart! Body.. rejecting it!" before dramatically everting it onto the table. In the episode “The Silent Partners” of the Adult Swim cartoon,
Baboon as a full species, but regard all the others as subspecies of "P. cynocephalus" and refer to them collectively as "savanna baboons". This may not be helpful: it is based on the argument that the hamadryas baboon is behaviorally and physically distinct from other baboon species, and that this reflects a separate evolutionary history. However, recent morphological and genetic studies of "Papio" show the hamadryas baboon to be more closely related to the northern baboon species (the Guinea and olive baboons) than to the southern species (the yellow and chacma baboons). In 2015 researchers found the oldest baboon fossil dating