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Baboon mothers living in the wild carry dead infants for up to 10 days, ... Chimps and Japanese macaques for example have been observed carrying infants for over a month.

This news release is available in Japanese. Researchers have found evidence of shared decision-making among a troop of wild baboons, providing insight into how animals that live in socially ...

March 17, 2007 — -- We humans share a lot of traits with baboons. Here is a top ten cocktail guide to the animal. Use it to impress, or annoy, friends at parties. 1. Baboons are neurotic.

South Africa's Cape Peninsula is a big tourist draw, but it's also home to hundreds of brazen baboons, and there's fear people-monkey encounters are set to rise.

Four brainy baboons made a desperate bid for freedom from a Texas medical research center, using a 55-gallon barrel to bust out of the joint. The primates outsmarted their human caretakers Saturday… ...

Baboons in laboratory experiments showed hints of abstract thinking by picking out various images on a computer screen, a surprising finding that raises new questions about evolution and what ...

Just like humans, groups of baboons sometimes break off relations. Scientists have studied the dynamics of such breakups and say baboons tend to split up in a cooperative, egalitarian way.