South Africa's Cape Peninsula is a big tourist draw, but it's also home to hundreds of brazen baboons, and there's fear people-monkey encounters are set to rise.

This baboon found itself at the wrong end of an angry mongoose family when he tried to steal their baby. The rare sighting was captured on camera by 57-year-old Charmaine Kritzinger, a wildlife ...

After an hour or so at the site, Schultz left to attend his meeting and allow other visitors to take a look. He said it is not unusual for baboons to kill young lions or leopards, but the ...

I had been looking for volunteer opportunities in Africa for about 12 years. ... An adult baboon had ripped off his left arm and the C.A.R.E. veterinarian was able to sew the wound shut.

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The baboon jumped onto the nearby kitchen counter, picking up a glass bottle and swinging it in my direction as he opened kitchen drawers below him with his other hand, maybe looking for food.

A man jogs past as a chacma baboon forages in the garden of a home in a suburban neighborhood of Da Game Park, near Simon's Town, outside of Cape Town, South Africa, Oct. 31, 2024.