A Pan African Sanctuary Alliance analysis flags chacma baboons as the most frequently recorded primate in legal international ...

Dominant baboons sleep less at night, as social rank keeps leaders more alert and prone to nighttime disruptions.

Authorities in Cape Town, South Africa, have released an updated baboon action plan aimed at reducing conflict between people ...

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 ...

The baboons attack as a group and throw the leopard off guard. Baboons hate leopards—and for good reason. The big cats are one of a baboon's top predators, typically hunting the primates at night by ...

A group of baboons thought it was safe to climb down from a tree when a buffalo wandered off, but they were wrong. In a hysterical video posted by Wild Friends Africa, nearly a dozen baboons acting ...

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.

While my legs are churning around near-automatically, my eyes are continually distracted by wildlife: baboons, oryx and ...

The ancient Egyptians, as it turns out, were up to a bit of monkey business. They raised baboons in captivity, subjected them to poor living conditions and then mummified them, according to a study ...

Baboons, it seems, prefer pinot noir. They also like a nice chardonnay. Largely undeterred by electric fences, hundreds of wild baboons in South Africa's prized wine country are finding the vineyards ...

When the keepers at the Netherlands' Emmen Zoo opened the night enclosure for 112 baboons on July 29, they expected the animals would be, as usual, eager to get inside. After all, the baboons knew ...