For many years sporadic stories have come out of South Africa about a wild boy caught in the Koonap district in 1903 while traveling with a tribe of baboons. His captors were members of the Cape ...

But while baboons in Namibia exposed to mirrors find the reflective glass fascinating, they don’t respond to dots placed on their faces, researchers report in the January Proceedings of the ...

Recently the hashtag #JusticeForRaygun has been widely shared on social media. A young male baboon named Raygun was being tracked as he made his way through a suburb of Pretoria to the wilds.

Wild baboons failed to demonstrate visual self-recognition in a test carried out by anthropologists. Published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study found that while the baboons ...

Baboons spotted in Cape Town city center went viral on social media after people saw them use the road A video shared on Facebook shows a hilarious moment featuring baboons making their way past a ...

The North Carolina Zoo is welcoming a new addition – Winnie the baboon! Winnie, a young female baboon, joined the zoo’s band of Hamadryas baboons when she was born on June 16. "At just two ...