Baboons are widely distributed across Africa and parts of the Middle ... As the largest member of the monkey family, the ...

Like baboons, the mandrill sports a long snout ... mainly of a series of grunts and screams. As an old-world monkey (monkeys ...

The baboon was rescued by a wildlife organisation and is now recovering but has "serious wounds", he told the BBC. Africa Live: Updates on this and other stories Monkey causes nationwide Kenya ...

Clearly Simba's not a baboon. But neither is Rafiki. He's a different kind of monkey altogether — a mandrill. And what's more, Rafiki has a long tail, yet in real life mandrills are nearly tailless.

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 ...