Male baboons eavesdrop on mating couples to determine the status of their relationships, scientists show. Mating chacma baboons produce an incredible amount of noise; males grunt and females emit loud ...

There are six different species of baboons. Scientists have found that certain species of baboons are more aggressive than others. However, when push comes to shove, every species of baboon can be ...

They revel in the good times and comfort in the bad, offering one another companionship and support, strength and protection. After all, what are friends for? That is precisely the question that a ...

Dr Joselyn Mormile is a conservation scientist who has been working with baboons and communities in South Africa for more than 15 years. Her work has included sanctuary care and veterinary medicine, ...

Baboons are remarkable animals. While they often are written off as unintelligent violently aggressive creatures and bear the brunt of uninformed slurs, nothing could be further from the truth about ...

Southern Africans have a love-hate relationship with chacma baboons. They have an unmistakable presence on the landscape, but their reputation as notorious troublemakers makes them unpopular. Lethal ...

For 50 years, researchers in Kenya have studied more than 1,500 baboons across eight generations. What they’ve learned could apply to our lives, too. After darting a baboon named Olduvai in Kenya’s ...