South Africa's Cape Peninsula is a big tourist draw, but it's also home to hundreds of brazen baboons, and there's fear people-monkey encounters are set to rise.

Side view of a baboon cranium from Misgrot Cave, South Africa. This is one of the comparative assemblages the authors used in the analysis.

Baboons and gazelles often roam side-by-side, raising the alarm for one another when predators approach, according to wildlife photographer Nimit Virdi, ... View the images below.

ZooTampa made history by teaming up with human dental experts to perform a groundbreaking surgery on a baboon named Silar, saving his smile and health. Read about this incredible collaboration!

Baboons are some of the most identifiable of the monkey world. They have tufts of hair on either side of their faces and large, hairless bottoms that can turn red. These old-world monkeys also do ...

Baboons form lines based on friendships, ... View 1 Image 1 / 1. ... Previous studies landed on either side of the one coin: ...

A leopard’s attempt to nab an easy meal backfired terribly after a troop of 50 baboons banded together and beat the spots off of it, as seen in a viral video taken in Kruger National Park, So… ...

Researchers have discovered that baboons walk in lines, not for safety or strategy, but simply to stay close to their friends. Baboons walking in progression on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula ...

Baboons whose mothers died before they reached maturity, but then forged strong friendships in adulthood, were best able to bounce back. The flip side is also true, Alberts said. “Strong social bonds ...

Baboons can stand in for humans during cross-species transplantation studies. Now, for the first time, researchers have kept baboons alive and healthy for up to six months on transplanted pig hearts.