Mummified remains of baboons in Egypt found over a century ago have long puzzled researchers. The primates were not native to Egypt and had their canine teeth removed before being preserved.

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.

Baboons form lines based on friendships, not strategy, revealing insights into social behavior and challenging previous theories on animal movement.

Baboons often travel in structured line formations known as "progressions" as they move through their home range. Previous studies offered conflicting explanations for this behavior.

In the Cape Peninsula of South Africa, the research team studied 78 distinct travel movements of a group of wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus).In their 36-day trial, clear patterns emerged in the ...

Of the 199 baboons in the study, 75 percent suffered through at least one stressor, and 33 percent had two or more. Their results confirm previous findings that the more hardship a female baboon ...

Male baboons will stop at nothing to protect their troop. And Tharos had a lucky escape. As long as the all-seeing baboons live in the woodlands, the siblings will have no luck here.

Researchers have discovered that baboons walk in lines, not for safety or strategy, but simply to stay close to their friends. Baboons walking in progression on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula ...