Conflict between humans and baboons can tear communities apart. Shirley C. Strum has studied wild olive baboons in Kenya for ...

Lack of exercise - and not diet - causes obesity and diabetes among those who are predisposed to the conditions, suggests new research on wild baboons by Saint Louis University geriatricians published ...

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

ST. LOUIS - Lack of exercise - and not diet - causes obesity and diabetes among those who are predisposed to the conditions, suggests new research on wild baboons by Saint Louis University ...

This Valentine’s Day, the lovelorn would do well to consult psychology Prof. Barbara Smuts, who literally wrote the book on love – baboon love, that is. Surprisingly, however, the many field studies ...

Dominant baboons rule the troops by day, but at night, they may pay a hidden cost. A study led by Swansea University has ...

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 ...

Male (right) and female (left, with infant) friends in a population of Chacma baboons. (From Palombit, 2009). Among other things, friends are people you count on to come to your aid when you need help ...

A male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub is a rare sight, yet it happened over the weekend in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The baboon took the cub up into a tree and preened it as if it ...

In one of the most widely read posts on the Animals and Us blog (here), I discussed whether a troop of hamadryas baboons living in a garbage dump at Taif, Saudi Arabia kidnap puppies and raise them as ...

JOHANNESBURG — A male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub is an unusual sight, yet it happened over the weekend in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. The baboon took the cub up into a tree and ...