LONDON — When 112 wild baboons encountered mirrors for the first time in Namibia’s desert landscape, scientists watched eagerly. Would these clever primates recognize their own reflections ...

Wildlife authorities call on the public to remain calm after another wild male baboon has been spotted in an urban area. This follows the tragic death of Raygun, who was beaten and killed in ...

The paper, by A. Strandburg-Peshkin at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, and colleagues was titled, "Shared decision-making drives collective movement in wild baboons." ...

Yet it’s not always clear how they distinguish kin from nonrelatives. A study published last month (February 24) in Current Biology finds that death, dispersals, and an unknown innate strategy help ...

Human-Wildlife Interactions Vol. 14, No. 3, Winter 2020 Baboon and vervet monkey crop-foraging b... Conflict between crop farmers and wild nonhuman primates is a worldwide conservation issue of ...

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 ...

She received her Ph.D. at Duke University investigating the causes and consequences of genetic variation in wild baboons, under the supervision of Susan Alberts and Gregory Wray. She spent her ...

Females and infants used areas that were inaccessible to males and no group size differences were found. In the wild, baboons (Papio sp.) spend up to 70 per cent of their time on the ground covering ...

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 ...

A study found that wild baboons fail to recognise themselves in mirrors. Researchers placed mirrors near water sources in Namibia’s Tsaobis Nature Park and projected laser dots onto the baboons ...