A baby baboon named Zuri has been given a second chance at life after she was found nestling beside her dead mother.

It's less than 24 hours since my twin-engine plane touched down on the runway in Phalaborwa, South Africa, and I am crouched on a plastic food crate in a wire mesh cage, surrounded by 17 roughly ...

Conflict between humans and baboons can tear communities apart. Shirley C. Strum has studied wild olive baboons in Kenya for more than 50 years. In that time she's come to understand the species ...

Many people assume baboons and mandrills are the same animal because both belong to the Old World monkey family and share similar body shapes. In fact, mandrills were once grouped with baboons and are ...

"It's about trust, protection and the next generation." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Instead, I turned and was shocked to see Split Lip, the alpha male baboon from the troop that was frequenting Misty Cliffs, a ...

In one of the most widely read posts on the Animals and Us blog (here), I discussed whether a troop of hamadryas baboons living in a garbage dump at Taif, Saudi Arabia kidnap puppies and raise them as ...

Baboons are one of the most widespread of Africa's primate groups. They range across sub-Saharan Africa and into the Arabian Peninsula. Baboons' ability to spread across such a vast geographic area is ...

Santam says its clients were covered for up to 2% of their total sum insured for damage caused by wild baboons or monkeys, to ...