For decades, a government-funded colony of more than 160 baboons has lived, bred and died on Sydney’s outskirts, hidden in ...

Baboons wreak havoc in a woman's kitchen, leaving Mzansi amused. Explore why these bold creatures invade homes and the ...

What started out as a fun outing to a zoo ended in fear when a family was told they could not leave, as an animal was on the ...

A Western Cape man went viral online after battling curious baboons trying to get into his car, leaving South Africans amused ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baboons sacred to the ancient Egyptians were glorified as mummies after their death, but they suffered from poor conditions when they were alive, a new study suggests. The researchers examined bones ...

Olive baboon troops decide where to move democratically, despite their hierarchical social order, according to a new report in Science magazine by Smithsonian researchers and colleagues. At the Mpala ...

Baboons, it seems, prefer pinot noir. They also like a nice chardonnay. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Largely undeterred by ...

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, ...