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

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, ...

More than 100,000 nonhuman primates, including baboons, macaques, marmosets, and other monkeys, are held or used for research ...

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

Our animal friends can be amusing. The annual wildlife photo competition celebrates the silly side of the animal kingdom.

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

When researchers tested wild baboons with mirrors, they found no signs of self-recognition. Unlike some animals that react to their reflections with curiosity or recognition, baboons didn’t ...

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 ...