One of Africa's rarest monkeys likely interbred with baboons in its past, new genetic research suggests. The large monkey called Rungwecebus kipunji, or kipunji for short, was only discovered in 2003, ...

Opposing thumbs, expressive faces, complex social systems: it's hard to miss the similarities between apes and humans. Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less ...

Three hikers in South Africa sustained broken legs following an attack by "agitated" baboons, who rolled a large boulder down at them WSAR Western Cape Monkey see, monkey threw. Three hikers in South ...

At Peaceable Primate Sanctuary, Scott Kubisch cares for monkeys — among them Dyson, a baboon — who had been used in research labs or kept in abusive conditions. I almost drove right past it the first ...

Young primates in a southern African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention to a younger brother or sister. By Annie Roth Annie Roth has reported on ...

To the untrained listener, a bunch of babbling baboons may not sound like much. But sharp-eared experts have now found that our primate cousins can actually produce humanlike vowel sounds. The finding ...