Jack the Baboon met James Wilde one fine afternoon and immediately became his professional and personal companion.

In the Cape Peninsula of South Africa, the research team studied 78 distinct travel movements of a group of wild chacma ...

That baboon troop was moved soon after to the Cape Point national park. But the conflict between humans and baboons around Cape Town remains just as alarming, and things are getting worse ...

with baboons acting as stand-ins for humans. People expand their settlements into areas where baboons once lived freely. They create secure spaces behind high walls, razor wire fences and security ...

Baboon rights activists are alarmed by a proposed management plan that could lead to the removal of five baboon troops in the ...

An extraordinary phenomenon unfolds every evening in the hidden caves of Ewaso Kedong, Kajiado county. A convention of ...

Now Streaming on Disney+. Though humans are more closely related to the great apes such as chimpanzees and gorillas than to baboons, baboons are still excellent points of primate comparison.

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eGenesis has started transplanting gene-edited pigs’ hearts into infant baboons—and humans may be next. The baby baboon is wearing a mesh gown and appears to be sitting upright. “This little ...

with baboons acting as stand-ins for humans. People expand their settlements into areas where baboons once lived freely. They create secure spaces behind high walls, razor wire fences and security ...

Sandra Swart researches animal and human history, often with a focus on baboons. She told us the fascinating and cruel history of these encounters in South Africa. People are far more ...