ALTHOUGH simians are widespread and occasionally numerous in South Africa, more especially in those parts which are wooded or mountainous, they belong to only five — or, if one excludes the ...

A Pan African Sanctuary Alliance analysis flags chacma baboons as the most frequently recorded primate in legal international ...

A new study has found that chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) like to feed on antelope poop, especially during drier months when vegetation might be sparse. Researchers deployed collar cameras attached to ...

Male (right) and female (left, with infant) friends in a population of Chacma baboons. (From Palombit, 2009). Among other things, friends are people you count on to come to your aid when you need help ...

On a sunny afternoon in Cape Town’s seaside village of Simon’s Town, three young chacma baboons cause a commotion, clambering on roofs, jumping between buildings and swinging on the gutters. Enchanted ...

A study reveals that dominant members of primate troops miss out on restful nights. The post ‘Heavy is the head that wears ...

Leah Findlay works for the the Alldays Wildlife and Communities Research Centre in South Africa. She is the research coordinator of the Primate and Predator Project, which seeks to understand the ...

It was the first time a controlled laser mark test has been done on these animals in a wild setting and strengthens the evidence from other studies that monkeys don’t recognise their own reflection.

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March 11 (UPI) --Wild baboon mothers carry dead infants for up to ten days, according to a new study. The research promises to illuminate the ways animals deal with death. Over the course of 13 years, ...

Baboon mothers living in the wild have been observed carrying their dead infants for as long as 10 days, according to scientists. A new study by University College London and France’s Université de ...