The recent wildfires in Cape Town ravaged parts of the Cape Peninsula, destroying crucial baboon habitats and forcing troops ...

“To Jaco, thank you for being so committed to helping the baboons every single night. They are grateful as are the people who ...

A video has surfaced showing a road patrol officer guiding a pair of baboons safely cross Simon's Town's main road.

Chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) are proper locals, native to southern Africa and a familiar sight on the Cape Peninsula, where they regularly cross paths (and sometimes weapons) with humans, notes The ...

A lack of education about natural animal behaviour has come to the fore in the wake of the horrific killing of Raygun, a chacma baboon, at Botleng Secondary School in Delmas, Mpumalanga.

To address this knowledge gap and identify some mitigation strategies, we used direct observation from a hide to collect behaviors and interspecific interactions between chacma baboons (Papio ursinus; ...

Infanticide may be the main cause of infant mortality in some species, such as Chacma baboons. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Raygun the baboon was killed by schoolchildren in Mpumalanga in an attack allegedly motivated by witchcraft and superstition.

In the new study, researchers conducted the mirror test on fully wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in Tsaobis Nature Park, Namibia. “Ours is the first study to do a large sample in the wild ...

He was then tracked to the Zwavelpoort valley, near Olympus, just east of Pretoria. The male Chacma baboon then made his way to a school in Mpumalanga where he was killed. Murray said a witch ...

The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(NSPCA) is offering a R20 000 reward for information following the brutal killing of a male Chacma baboon known as ...