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

Baboons, however, live their entire lives in close and continuous ... and grow up clustered around her and each other - it is harder to see who the paternal sisters in a group are. In fact, we ...

Alberts and colleagues also looked at a group of baboons living near a human refugee camp, where they had close contact with people. In this group, they found, it became uncommon for outside males to ...

A man in Simon's Town helped baboons cross a road safely. South Africans were touched by the video of the troop of baboons ...

A social group consisting of one adult male and multiple adult females. One-male unit: The smallest layer of social structure in the multi-male societies of hamadryas baboons, geladas, and snub ...

coordinated series of studies of yellow baboons, Papio cynocephalus, in the Amboseli region of East Africa, immediately north and west of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The Project has long centered on processes at ...

In the study, one male per group was taught to operate a special ... This could indicate that in the society of Guinea baboons, males have less competition for access to food sources controlled ...

Encounters between baboons and people are common in parts ... When he stopped at a school in a small town, a group of teenagers hunted him down, attacked him and burned him to death.

They also noted whether she was born in a drought year, born into a large group or had a sibling close in age, which could mean more competition for resources or maternal attention. The results show ...

Baboons have the ability to cooperate with each other, like their human counterparts, for the common good, or punish them if they do not reciprocate, according to a study. Scientists have long ...