Are baboons intelligent?

Baboons are intelligent, adaptable, social and communicative.  They can assess a situation and make informed decisions very quickly.  They are skilled at sizing up a threat or opportunity, analysing their surroundings and escape routes, and taking quick action.  

As for book-smarts, one study has shown baboons to have innate quantitative abilities equivalent to a three year old human¹.

Never mind Jack, a Chacma baboon who held down a day job as an assistant railway signalman for 9 years!².

1 University of Rochester. “Monkey math: Baboons show brain’s ability to understand numbers.” ScienceDaily. 3 May 2013. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130503132719.htm

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(baboon)