Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Baboons groom but don’t have to; humans may not groom enough. At least, that’s what I’ve learned from recent observations. At the Bronx Zoo a couple ...

Johannesburg — It was a normal holiday morning. My family was getting up for the day and my husband had just left for a meeting. I was holding one of my children in my arms and another by the hand ...

ENCOUNTERS between baboons and people are common in parts of South Africa. WhatsApp groups often share stories of baboons raiding a kitchen and stealing all the food. And stories appear in the media ...

Primping and passing time with peers may serve a serious purpose, suggests a new study by a UCLA-led team of primate researchers. The more time wild female baboons spend in the company of other adult ...

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

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Having close bonds with the opposite sex can have non-romantic benefits, not just for humans, but also for their primate cousins, according to a new research done in Kenya. The study, done after ...

Daddy day care helps female baboons live longer, according to new research. Females of the primate species who had strong father-daughter relationships lived two to four years longer than other ...