Baboon politics say a lot about human politics: It's tough to be on top, and the key to staying there is to know when to stress over the competition. Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford ...

What went wrong? The rupture in the shared deep history of the baboon–human relationship came with the shift from hunter-gatherer lifeways to sedentary crop farming (starting about 1,000 years ...

show that life at the top of the social hierarchy is not always peaceful. So what exactly is it, then, that accounts for this extra stress for dominant baboons? In the journal Proceedings of the ...

Baboons, however, live their entire lives in close and continuous proximity not only to friends and family but also to opponents. For a male, who may live in several different groups over the course ...

Instead, it involved a Chacma baboon throwing a gang of banded mongooses ... “The mongooses are piled on top of one another, giving the appearance of one writhing creature, in a behaviour ...

Based on the number of views and comments, not one but two videos featuring baboon behaviour have sparked a whirlwind of attention on social media. In the first video, the question ‘Why did the ...

In most baboon species, males reach sexual maturity and they leave the group they're born into, joining another group Weyher explained — and they contend for top rank. "During that time they ...

But what if we take that concept and bring it to the animal kingdom, specifically to primates? A male and female Kinda baboon share a private moment on a tree branch in Kasanka National Park, Zambia.

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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 ...