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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team has announced significant progress in managing baboons on the Peninsula, ...

But there's no evidence the boy is Fulani or that the meat isn't monkey, most likely baboon. A video of a young boy eating what looks like a charred human arm is circulating online in Nigeria.

In Cape Town the coexistence of humans and Chacma baboons in urban areas, particularly in villages like Kommetjie, has led to increasing tensions and conflicts. A mother Chacma baboon runs across ...

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 ...