On a tree-speckled savanna in what’s now Morocco, a group of early humans once huddled near a fire, their stone tools scattered around their campsite. Now, examinations of fire-baked tools from ...

A letter by the Wildlife Animal Protection Forum of South Africa to the Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team ...

Cape Town plans to relocate four urban baboon troops to reduce conflict, and promote wild, healthy behaviour in the animals.

It's not a simple case of "follow the leader" when it comes to baboons on foot, traversing their home range. Based on prior ...

We often consider empathy a uniquely human trait, a complex capacity for understanding and sharing the feelings of others.

Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more ...

If we are to sum up more than 25 years of active work, research and effort, we can say that there are no baboon-proof bins, none of the suggested strategic baboon-proof fences, no fines or ...

In 1881, a Double Leg Amputee Railway Signalman Purchased a Baboon to Assist in Performing His Duties There are numerous ...

A full-blown conservation clash is bubbling up in the Western Cape, and it’s got the fur flying – literally. Authorities have ...

Feinberg Professor emerita Eva Redei’s research had two key components: vats of water and “depressed” rats. Redei found that ...

The slow rate of healing seemed to be related to our loss of hair. Hair contains stem cells, and a thick body cover of hair ...

A new study comparing humans with other primates and rodents suggests that fur loss millions of years ago slowed the healing ...