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,
Olive baboon elephants use the tree-top baboons as an early warning system. The olive baboon is listed as least concern by the IUCN because "this species is very widespread and abundant and although persecuted as a crop raider there are no major threats believed to be resulting in a range-wide population decline". Despite persecution, the baboon is still widespread and numerous. Competition and disease have possibly led to fewer baboons in closed forests. It has been actively persecuted as a pest. Olive baboon The olive baboon ("Papio anubis"), also called the Anubis baboon, is a member of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World