Two troops of chacma baboons are breaking into homes and shops but animal rights activists insist coexistence is the answer ...

One day in the 1880s, a peg-legged railway signalman named James Edwin Wide was visiting a buzzing South African market when he witnessed something surreal: A chacma baboon driving an oxcart.

Male baboons that have close female friends have higher rates of survival than those who don’t, a new study shows. Drawing on 35 years of data with more than 540 baboons in Amboseli National Park in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock One wildlife photographer's stunning shot is drawing attention to the sweet relationship between young ...

According to Ancient Egyptian legends, the Land of Punt was a mysterious kingdom covered in tropical vegetation, inhabited by exotic animals and rich in treasures, including gold, gemstones, ...

An acoustical analysis of the grunts, barks, wahoos, copulation calls, and yaks from baboons shows that, like people who use several vowels during speech, these nonhuman primates make five distinct ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A male baboon was photographed kidnapping a young lion cub at Kruger ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has shed light on baboons, moonlight and their link to an ancient Egyptian deity. A paper published in Time and Mind focuses on a god named Thoth—an ...

If you’re a baboon, being in charge gives you a lot of advantages: you have better access to food, you get more action from the ladies, and your kids tend to grow faster and live longer. Low-rankers, ...