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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 was photographed kidnapping a young lion cub at Kruger National Park in South Africa this weekend, before grooming and caring for it as though it were a young baboon. The monkey was ...

A troop of restless baboons is a common early-morning sight at South Africa’s Kruger National Park. At first, safari operator Kurt Schultz didn’t notice anything unusual while snapping photos last ...

Scientists have managed to keep a pig heart transplanted into a baboon beating for almost three years, setting a new record and pushing forward the field of cross-species transplantation. The study, ...

According to Ancient Egyptian legends, the Land of Punt was a mysterious kingdom covered in tropical vegetation, inhabited by exotic animals and rich in treasures, including gold, gemstones, ...