Heavy is the head that wears the crown - even for baboons. Dominant members of primate troops miss out on restful nights, ...

A Pan African Sanctuary Alliance analysis flags chacma baboons as the most frequently recorded primate in legal international ...

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 ...

It was during an early morning safari in the Kruger National Park that we stopped near a waterhole to watch a troop of baboons getting started with their day. There were about forty plus baboons in ...

Dominant baboons rule the troop by day, but at night, they may pay a hidden cost. A new study led by Swansea University has found that higher-ranking baboons get less and more fragmented rest at night ...

We also know that within normal ranges, testosterone levels are not strongly predictive of aggression. In the amygdala, a ...

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 ...