Though it looks like a baboon, the mandrill is a monkey of its own; it is closer genetically to the white-eyelid mangabey ...

To find out if baboons, which are particularly sociable monkeys, are capable of this level of sophistication, researchers conducted an experiment at a French primate centre. Eighteen Guinea ...

"As the baboons didn't touch the marks when viewed indirectly, this research confirms that monkeys don't spontaneously recognize themselves in a mirror. But, given the monkeys quickly familiarized ...

Initially, the primate was reported to be a baboon, but has since been identified as a rhesus macaque. The monkey, which is named Dawkins, spent nearly two hours on the loose. Dawkins was ...

Officials at Texas research centre have made changes to the enclosures after four baboons leapt to freedom. The primates propped up barrels against the walls of their yard at the Texas Biomedical ...