South Africa's Cape Peninsula is a big tourist draw, but it's also home to hundreds of brazen baboons, and there's fear ...

The image of a gladiator standing tall on top of a charging rhino flying through the Roman Colosseum became one of the ...

On a sunny afternoon in Cape Town's seaside village of Simon's Town, three young chacma baboons cause a commotion, clambering ...

Baboons, however, live their entire lives in close and continuous proximity not only to friends and family but also to opponents. For a male, who may live in several different groups over the course ...

A study of "troops" of baboons in their natural environment in East Africa has revealed patterns of interdependence that may shed light on the early evolution of the human species By Irven DeVore ...

Our goal is to document in detail the response of the Amboseli baboons to the environmental change they are experiencing. The baboon population experienced a dramatic decline in the 1960's at the ...

Baboon politics say a lot about human politics: It's tough to be on top, and the key to staying there is to know when to stress over the competition. Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford ...

In an attempt to provide singly-housed baboons with stimulating natural foods, corn on the cob was fed to baboons of various ages and life histories and was found to reduce cage stereotypies (Bennett ...