A lack of education about natural animal behaviour has come to the fore in the wake of the horrific killing of Raygun, a chacma baboon, at Botleng Secondary School in Delmas, Mpumalanga.A wrong turn ...

Jack knew how to put trains on the right track. In nine years of work, he never missed a track switch as locomotives drew ...

In a lab test, chimps and orangutans can recognize their own reflection. But in the wild, baboons seemingly can’t do the same.

Raygun the baboon was killed by schoolchildren in Mpumalanga in an attack allegedly motivated by witchcraft and superstition.

The researchers observed 120 Chacma baboons in Tsaobis Nature Park, Namibia, between May and October 2021 to better understand self-awareness among wild non-hominid primates, who have previously ...

Infanticide may be the main cause of infant mortality in some species, such as Chacma baboons. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

When the Cape Government Railways opened the first railway line to Port Elizabeth from Cape Town during the latter part of ...

In the new study, researchers conducted the mirror test on fully wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in Tsaobis Nature Park, Namibia. “Ours is the first study to do a large sample in the wild ...

In a significant development for wildlife management on the Cape Peninsula, the Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task ...

The rupture in the shared deep history of the baboon–human relationship came with the shift from hunter-gatherer lifeways to ...

The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(NSPCA) is offering a R20 000 reward for information following the brutal killing of a male Chacma baboon known as ...