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

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 ...

Studying baboonsOnce again, the call of the wild is too strong for Shirley Strum to resist. The UC San Diego anthropologist will soon jet off to Kenya to observe olive baboons in one of the ...

Olive baboons were an obvious choice. They’re well-studied, so their behaviours can be interpreted in the light of decades of knowledge. They live in open habitats, where GPS signals are strong ...

Perhaps baboons should run for office. Researchers tracking a troop of wild olive baboons have found that the primates make travel decisions democratically when disagreements arise over which ...

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 ...

N A I R O B I, Oct. 31 -- A British animal welfare groupsaid today it had exposed a cruel and secretive trade inendangered baboons which were being sold from Tanzania tomedical research ...

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.