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

A wildlife enthusiast captured rare video of a baboon attempting to get to a baby mongoose by tossing other mongooses out of the way by their tails, but it soon discovered the ploy was futile. That’s ...

Say what you like, but sometimes the Internet really delivers. I felt like I was given a gift the first time I saw this video of a baboon’s response to a basic magic trick. It starts with a wan zoo ...

Egyptian geese are aggressively territorial. During mating, they are monogamous, making it likely the pair fighting the ...

An adult male and infant baboon in the Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya. This doesn’t necessarily show that father-daughter bonding improves longevity; it may be that healthy young females, already destined ...

A male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub is a rare sight, yet it happened over the weekend in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The baboon took the cub up into a tree and preened it as if it ...

Your personality affects how you interact with people and approach events in your life. So why shouldn't it work the same way for baboons? A new study shows that baboons' personalities affect how they ...