These friendships often lasted for life, and scientists say they show how male primates can use kindness and affection to ...

A young male baboon named Raygun was being tracked as he made his way through a suburb of Pretoria to the wilds. When he stopped at a school in a small town, a group of teenagers hunted him down, ...

Female Guinea baboons prefer skilled males for immediate benefits, revealing insights into primate social behavior and ...

A man in Cape Town helped baboons cross a road safely. South Africans were touched by the video of the troop of baboons using ...

South Africans were left amazed and impressed after some baboons were seen crossing a street in Cape Town in an orderly ...

A man using a baboon patrol flag to help baboons cross the road in Simon's Town, Western Cape, has many people in stitches.

They embrace our high-energy, low-effort foods, from orchards, fields, rubbish bins and dumps, picnics and kitchens—in a (very) few cases, wounding people and domestic animals. Some baboons lose ...

Sandra Swart researches animal and human history, often with a focus on baboons. She told us the fascinating and cruel history of these encounters in South Africa. A baboon sits by the roadside in ...

They embrace our high-energy, low-effort foods, from orchards, fields, rubbish bins and dumps, picnics and kitchens - in a (very) few cases, wounding people and domestic animals. Some baboons lose ...

South Africans were amazed by a now-viral TikTok video of a student fighting with an intrusive baboon trying to claim ...

National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) spokesperson Jacques Peacock confirmed that the NSPCA has retrieved the remains of the male baboon, affectionately known as Raygun, for a post-mortem and will ...