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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Encounters between baboons and people are common in parts of South Africa. WhatsApp groups often share stories of baboons raiding a kitchen and stealing all the food. And stories appear in the ...

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 ...

Females and infants used areas that were inaccessible to males and no group size differences were found. In the wild, baboons (Papio sp.) spend up to 70 per cent of their time on the ground covering ...

A separate group of 80 living baboons was also studied to evaluate the relationship between weight and soluble receptor of the cytokines interleukin 6 (IL-6sR) and tumor necrosis factor-α (sTNF ...