Some baboons groom their buddies for long lives. Female chacma baboons that maintain close, lasting friendships live considerably longer than their peers who switch companions more frequently, a new ...

They revel in the good times and comfort in the bad, offering one another companionship and support, strength and protection. After all, what are friends for? That is precisely the question that a ...

On a sunny afternoon in Cape Town's seaside village of Simon's Town, three young chacma baboons cause a commotion, clambering on roofs, jumping between buildings and swinging on the gutters. Enchanted ...

Male (right) and female (left, with infant) friends in a population of Chacma baboons. (From Palombit, 2009). Among other things, friends are people you count on to come to your aid when you need help ...

The international movement of baboons has become administratively normal, processed through permits and paperwork, while public scrutiny remains focused elsewhere. The most unsettling aspect of the ...

ALTHOUGH simians are widespread and occasionally numerous in South Africa, more especially in those parts which are wooded or mountainous, they belong to only five — or, if one excludes the ...

Leah Findlay works for the the Alldays Wildlife and Communities Research Centre in South Africa. She is the research coordinator of the Primate and Predator Project, which seeks to understand the ...

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Sibling rivalry might not unique to humans. New scientific research shows that baboon siblings in southern Africa also feel jealousy toward each other. Sibling rivalry can be intense between young ...

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 ...