An adult male and infant baboon in the Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya. This doesn’t necessarily show that father-daughter bonding improves longevity; it may be that healthy young females, already destined ...

We also know that within normal ranges, testosterone levels are not strongly predictive of aggression. In the amygdala, a ...

A male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub is a rare sight, yet it happened over the weekend in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The baboon took the cub up into a tree and preened it as if it ...

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

Unruly gangs are raiding the expensive homes that line the spectacular coast of South Africa's Cape Peninsula, clearing out pantries, emptying fridges, and defecating over the designer furnishings. It ...

The image of a gladiator standing tall on top of a charging rhino flying through the Roman Colosseum became one of the shining moments of the “Gladiator II” trailer — but the idea actually took more ...

'The baboons were revered as representations of Thoth, the god of the moon and wisdom, and adviser to the sun god Ra.' By Laura Baisas Published Dec 6, 2023 2:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

You know the type: Loud. Swaggering. Pushy. The alpha male clearly runs the show. Female alphas are often less conspicuous than their puffed up male counterparts, but holding the top spot still has ...

In one of the most widely read posts on the Animals and Us blog (here), I discussed whether a troop of hamadryas baboons living in a garbage dump at Taif, Saudi Arabia kidnap puppies and raise them as ...

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 ...

There comes a time when a nation must stand up and say, "Enough is enough. No more degrading political slurs." Yes, there is such a thing as a pride of lions and a parliament of owls. But there is ...