Baboons have the capability of being dangerous, but more often than not, they use their sharp teeth for defense rather than obligatory attacks. ©iStock.com ...

Maybe the reason we're so charmed by examples of inter-species care and affection is because we're a species of animal that finds other animals a constant source of entertainment and delight. We see a ...

New genetic analyses of wild baboons in southern Kenya reveals that most of them carry traces of hybridization in their DNA. As a result of interbreeding, about a third of their genetic makeup ...

Sleep study on a troop of wild baboons reveals that sacrificing sleep to meet pressing demands is common -- and might even be part of our evolutionary history. The first study ever to examine sleeping ...

Baboons live in groups with strict hierarchical structures, where a daughter’s rank is inherited from her mother. Yet despite the established social pecking order, a new study from scientists at ...

Baboons are remarkable animals. While they often are written off as unintelligent violently aggressive creatures and bear the brunt of uninformed slurs, nothing could be further from the truth about ...

To date, tens of millions of animal mummies have been unearthed in Egypt. But while there are millions of mummified cats, dogs, ibises and birds of prey, primate mummies are rare — and little ...

One day in the 1880s, a peg-legged railway signalman named James Edwin Wide was visiting a buzzing South African market when he witnessed something surreal: A chacma baboon driving an oxcart.

Crow intelligence now includes geometry: a 2025 Science Advances study found crows are the first non-human animals to ...