Editor’s Note (9/25/19): On September 25 evolutionary anthropologist Jenny Tung of Duke University was named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. Tung’s research on the consequences of early life adversity in ...

After an intense multi-day hunt deep in the wild, we finally succeeded in catching baboons with the Hadza tribe. The journey was filled with danger, persistence, and moments that pushed us to the ...

Baboons in laboratory experiments showed hints of abstract thinking by picking out various images on a computer screen, a surprising finding that raises new questions about evolution and what ...

Like humans, baboons are able to cooperate with another of their kind for the common good—or punish them if they don't reciprocate, a study said on Friday. Scientists have long debated whether animals ...

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 ...

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 ...

For roughly six months, fully functioning pig hearts beat inside the chests of two Anubis baboons. Genetic modifications to the pig hearts along with a new transplant technique are credited with the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

A zoo has said it killed 12 baboons on Tuesday because it didn’t have enough space for them. The zoo, based in the German city of Nuremberg, said it killed the animals despite growing protests,. The ...