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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

these data demonstrate that baboons exhibit varying degrees of differences between their chronological and epigenetic ages (i.e., their delta age), allowing characterization of baboons as age ...

A group of Baboons at Paignton Zoo in Devon have been filmed using their own hair and bristles from an old broom, to floss their pearly whites. Phil Knowling works at the zoo, and told 5 Live it ...

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 ...

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 ...