These friendships often lasted for life, and scientists say they show how male primates can use kindness and affection to ...

A young male baboon named Raygun was being tracked as he made his way through a suburb of Pretoria to the wilds. When he stopped at a school in a small town, a group of teenagers hunted him down, ...

Female Guinea baboons prefer skilled males for immediate benefits, revealing insights into primate social behavior and ...

A man in Cape Town helped baboons cross a road safely. South Africans were touched by the video of the troop of baboons using ...

Chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) are proper locals, native to southern Africa and a familiar sight on the Cape Peninsula, where they regularly cross paths (and sometimes weapons) with humans, notes The ...

A man using a baboon patrol flag to help baboons cross the road in Simon's Town, Western Cape, has many people in stitches.

Individuals form long-term, social bonds, and those relationships are seen, uniquely, between male and female baboons. Over nine years, researchers studied the Kinda baboon, a kinder, gentler species ...

Among baboons, females tend to form the strongest bonds with each other. Adult males live apart from them, except when mating. The species of Kinda baboons are different. A new study led by Anna ...

This is the amazing moment a pair of baboons wait for a crossing guard to signal a safe crossing in Cape Town, South Africa ...

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 ...