These friendships often lasted for life, and scientists say they show how male primates can use kindness and affection to socially succeed.

Baboon ecology: African field research ... South Africa. Hausfater, G. 1976. Predatory behavior of yellow baboons. Behaviour 56:44-68. Hill, C. M. 1997. Crop-raiding by wild vertebrates: the farmer’s ...

Baboon Baboons are very aggressive and attack ... While mandrills and baboons share similarities in social behavior, their hunting behavior is quite different. Mandrills are shy, nocturnal ...

Two baboon groups in their natural habitat in Senegal ... Credit: The German Primate Center Interestingly, this behavior decreased again after the food box was removed. This suggests that the ...

Baboon Ecology [4], the book that resulted ... thus considerably enhancing our ability to study mechanisms of social behavior, development and aging, and the baboons' response to environmental change ...

Based on the number of views and comments, not one but two videos featuring baboon behaviour have sparked a whirlwind of attention on social media. In the first video, the question ‘Why did the ...

This swinging behavior is actually more similar to how ... In one scene in the 1994 film, he and Simba argue about which of them is a baboon. Clearly Simba's not a baboon. But neither is Rafiki.

Kataza the baboon made international headlines when ... and caused them to react without anyone considering natural baboon behavior.

She enjoys monitoring the behavior of her own "monkeys" at home. Lacey Roerish. Lacey plays the critical role of updating and maintaining the large behavioral, ecological, and demographic database on ...