To find out if baboons, which are particularly sociable monkeys, are capable of this level of sophistication, researchers conducted an experiment at a French primate centre. Eighteen Guinea ...

Baboons will raid farms and homes looking for food, and some baboons will attack crops. Size As the largest member of the monkey family, the mandrill is larger than even the biggest baboon species.

A picture of 10 baboons living in Rotterdam’s Blijdorp Zoo has been dubbed the “family photo of the year” after the group posed perfectly for keeper Lisa Schol. The female gelada monkeys are holding ...