Animal rights activists disagree with authorities on how best to handle boom in primate population near Table Mountain ...

Self-awareness may be beyond primates in the wild. Chimps, organutans and other species faced with a mirror react to a dot on their face in the lab, a widely used measure of self-awareness. But while ...

A new study from researchers at Swansea University, Wales, revealed a surprising truth about the social behavior of baboons. In the Cape Peninsula of South Africa, the research team studied 78 ...

Wild baboons failed to demonstrate visual self-recognition in a test carried out by anthropologists. Published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study found that while the baboons ...

Humans like to study themselves in a mirror. But wild baboons, when presented with a mirror, don’t seem to recognize they’re staring at their own selves, a new study has found. For decades, ...

Wildlife Paws in Dullstroom is racing to raise approximately R350 000 to build a baboon enclosure that could save an orphaned baby’s life and create a future space for rehabilitation and release back ...

If you have siblings, you may remember fighting for your parents’ attention when you were younger. It turns out sibling ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was the first time a controlled laser mark test has been done on these animals in a wild setting and strengthens the evidence from other studies that monkeys don’t recognise their own reflection.