Baboon Woman is a wildlife documentary starring Karin Saks. In South Africa, baboons have historically been treated as pests and are persecuted. As human development continues to encroach on natural ...

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Dominant baboons sleep less at night, as social rank keeps leaders more alert and prone to nighttime disruptions.

A new study finds that dominant baboons, compared to lower-ranked individuals, experience shorter and more fragmented sleep ...

Johannesburg — It was a normal holiday morning. My family was getting up for the day and my husband had just left for a meeting. I was holding one of my children in my arms and another by the hand ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sickness that killed goats -- Rujeko -- The girl who did not eat beef -- The Baboon woman -- The selfish couple -- Murimi and the baboons -- The clever orphan -- The lazy son-in-law -- Tusuro and ...

Impala look to baboons for security from big cats lurking in the woodlands. From their watchtowers, baboons call out threats to the earth-bound impala. Nature is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

A baboon named Nikki, used in pregnancy experiments and confined to a cage at EVMS, rocks back and forth in psychological distress. Image obtained from this video by PETA through the Virginia Public ...