Conflict between humans and baboons can tear communities apart. Shirley C. Strum has studied wild olive baboons in Kenya for more than 50 years. In that time she's come to understand the species ...

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 ...

Self-awareness may be beyond primates in the wild. Chimps, organutans and other species faced with a mirror react to a dot on their face in the lab, a widely used measure of self-awareness. But while ...

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 ...

Among baboons, females tend to form the strongest bonds with each other. Adult males live apart from them, except when mating. The species of Kinda baboons are different. A new study led by Anna ...

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There is just something about baby animal cuteness that is always simply irresistible. Whether it is their playfulness or ...

Baboons are remarkable animals. While they often are written off as unintelligent violently aggressive creatures and bear the brunt of uninformed slurs, nothing could be further from the truth about ...

BERLIN — A zoo in the German city of Nuremberg said it killed 12 baboons on Tuesday despite protests, capping a saga rooted in concerns that the zoo had too little space to house a growing group of ...