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 ...

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 ...

Safari operator Kurt Schultz came across an unusual sight at South Africa’s Kruger National Park on Saturday — he spotted a large male baboon carrying a tiny lion cub on a tree. But ...

Among baboons, alpha males pay a high price for dominance In baboon society, males occupy a central position, and intense competition determines access to both females for mating and food resources.

For many years sporadic stories have come out of South Africa about a wild boy caught in the Koonap district in 1903 while traveling with a tribe of baboons. His captors were members of the Cape ...

The Amboseli Baboon Project is a long-term, coordinated series of studies of yellow baboons, Papio cynocephalus, in the Amboseli region of East Africa, immediately north and west of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

At Naka Estate in Nakuru County, an ordinary day unfolds with the extraordinary sight of baboons turning rooftops into their playground. Young baboons dangle from internet and TV cables ...