A new study confirms that wild baboons do not recognize themselves in mirrors, reinforcing previous research on monkey ...

The chacma baboon, for instance, can live on a diet of just grass. It can also go without water for 11 days. These abilities ...

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 ...

Wild baboons failed to demonstrate visual self-recognition in a test carried out by anthropologists. Published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study found that while the baboons ...

The set-up of the mirrors during mirror exposure and the mark test. (a) Two juvenile baboons exploring mirror 1 together. (b) An adult male interacting with the mirror. (c) Mirror 1 (vertical ...

Residents of Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard were in for an unusual sight on Saturday morning when a male baboon was spotted exploring the neighbourhoods. The animal’s journey through iconic ...

The researchers observed 120 Chacma baboons in Tsaobis Nature Park, Namibia, between May and October 2021 to better understand self-awareness among wild non-hominid primates, who have previously ...