In Cape Town the coexistence of humans and Chacma baboons in urban areas, particularly in villages like Kommetjie, has led to increasing tensions and conflicts. A mother Chacma baboon runs across ...

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Encounters between baboons and people are common in parts of South Africa. WhatsApp groups often share stories of baboons raiding a kitchen and stealing all the food. And stories appear in 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.

Raygun, a Chacman baboon, was killed by pupils of Botleng Secondary School in Delmas. The incident has sparked outrage and calls for urgent wildlife education. Chief Inspector Douglas Wolhuter ...

But wild baboons, when presented with a mirror, don’t seem to recognize they’re staring at their own selves, a new study has found. For decades, researchers have tried to understand if other ...

Photo:Facebook/ OwlRescue Centre Raygun, the notorious baboon known for wandering around parts of Pretoria, has reportedly been sighted in Silverlakes in the East of Pretoria. According to reports ...

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 ...

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 ...