Female baboons who experience hardships early in life grow up to be less socially connected, revealed a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Sam Patterson from New York University, ...

Young primates in a southern African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention ...

Early experiences in an animal's life can have a significant impact on its capacity to thrive, even years or decades later, and DNA methylation may help record their effects. In a study of 256 wild ...

It's not a simple case of "follow the leader" when it comes to baboons on foot, traversing their home range. Based on prior research, scientists had a few theories as to why the animals fall into such ...

AMHERST, Mass. — An international team of scientists led by a recent doctoral graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst sheds new light on the social behaviors of Kinda baboons (Papio ...

Baboons’ marching lines aren’t about protection or leadership, they simply walk with their friends. Swansea researchers found that social bonds, not strategy, shape their consistent travel patterns, ...

For 50 years, researchers in Kenya have studied more than 1,500 baboons across eight generations. What they’ve learned could apply to our lives, too. After darting a baboon named Olduvai in Kenya’s ...

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 ...

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A new study has found that chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) like to feed on antelope poop, especially during drier months when vegetation might be sparse. Researchers deployed collar cameras attached to ...

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