Baboons are one of the most widespread of Africa's primate groups. They range across sub-Saharan Africa and into the Arabian ...
A study of baboons found that have an easy life when young can pay off years into the future. Catherine Markham Growing up in troubled times strongly affects lifespan in baboons, a new study shows.
Three baboons on the loose in Sydney on Tuesday have shone a light onto the government-run facility from where they came.
For decades, a government-funded colony of more than 160 baboons has lived, bred and died on Sydney’s outskirts, hidden in ...
Many people assume baboons and mandrills are the same animal because both belong to the Old World monkey family and share ...
More non-human animals may be capable of abstract thought than previously known, with profound implications for the evolution of human intelligence and the stuff that separates homo sapiens from other ...
At some point in our evolution, humans gave up walking on four limbs, yet all of our ape cousins continue sauntering on four, resorting occasionally to two. Peter Aerts from the University of Antwerp, ...
According to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, baboons physiologically respond to bereavement in ways similar to humans, with an increase in stress hormones called glucocorticoids.
Leah Findlay works for the the Alldays Wildlife and Communities Research Centre in South Africa. She is the research coordinator of the Primate and Predator Project, which seeks to understand the ...
Impalas and baboons take a snack break under a sausage tree. Brooke R. Davis The impalas follow the baboons under the sausage tree, slurping up succulent snacks left behind by the primates. The ...