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 ...

In a world often characterized by aggressive male behavior, a unique species of baboon is turning heads in the scientific community by showing that being nice might be an evolutionary advantage. A ...

In a unique study, researchers from Swansea University (UK) and the University of Cape Town in South Africa have used GPS collars to study the collective behavior of a troop of baboons living on the ...

A virtual ecosystem populated by simulated chimpanzees, geladas, and baboons has produced societies so lifelike that males ...

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 ...