RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — A group of three state legislators sent leadership at Eastern Virginia Medical School a letter expressing concerns over the treatment of pregnant olive baboons used for ...

As humanity’s closest cousins in the animal kingdom, primates offer a fascinating look at complex social behavior in the wild ...

Olive baboons, for example, had more sex and performed more dominating behaviours without the eyes of humans on them. ...

Legolas, the olive baboon, was one of several baboons to arrive to Popcorn Park in December 2015 – alongside his brother Gandalf. “Legolas passed peacefully, with his brother Gandalf by his ...

In olive baboons low ranking mothers rank exhibited higher levels of abusive behaviour during the postpartum period. In wild populations of macaques, 5-10% of mothers have been observed biting, ...

The bones represented dozens of individual baboons — from infants to adults — in two species: the hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) and the olive baboon (Papio anubis).

Operators at the Promised Land Zoo say a staff member's failure to properly lock an enclosure allowed a pair of olive baboons to escape. Although one of the animals was recovered, another was shot ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a non-compliance violation to a Branson zoo following the June 22 shooting death of an olive baboon.

The olive baboon appeared in Taoyuan’s Pingzhen district on 10 March, reported Taiwan News. A team led by Huang Chih-chieh, the borough chief of Zhenxing, tried to capture the animal but failed.

New analysis of mummified baboons is shedding light on their place in ancient Egypt, revealing that, while they were prized as sacred animals, their living conditions were less than ideal.