These friendships often lasted for life, and scientists say they show how male primates can use kindness and affection to socially succeed.

These are headed by older males and include the female mates of the leader. Male baboons regularly fight off members of other troops who want to mate with their females, and the fighting can get ...

If you're going to be a high-ranking baboon and you are being threatened, can you at least take some control over the situation? Do you decide when the fight begins? Can you exert some control?

Baboons, however, live their entire lives in close and continuous ... while the ranks of male juveniles depend more on their own size and fighting ability. For a wide range of primate species, the ...

A research team led by William O'Hearn from the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research has found that female Guinea baboons court males more intensively when they show ...

A study published last month (February 24) in Current Biology finds that death, dispersals, and an unknown innate strategy help wild baboons avoid inbreeding. But the animals do sometimes mate with ...

the number one males in baboon society are also some of the most stressed-out, as measured by their high levels of glucocorticoids, the hormones involved in the fight-or-flight response.

Cape Town truly is the gift that keeps on giving. If it’s not a taxi driver swooping in like a hero to rescue an elderly man from the Cape Doctor wind, it’s a Cape Cobra lounging on someone ...

Eight baboon groups (Papio sp.) were observed for over one hundred scan samples both before and after the pro vision of structural enrichment. Additions to their home-cage included a galvanized ladder ...