A steady stream of chacma baboons flows down the walking path in the beautiful wooded ravine that leads up to Admiral’s Kloof ...

One day in the 1880s, a peg-legged railway signalman named James Edwin Wide was visiting a buzzing South African market when he witnessed something surreal: A chacma baboon driving an oxcart.

Daily Maverick’s Maverick Earth series examined Cape Town’s escalating baboon conflict from the perspectives of authorities, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock One wildlife photographer's stunning shot is drawing attention to the sweet relationship between young ...

The Cape of Good Hope SPCA is offering a R5,000 reward for information leading to a prosecution after CT2 troop leader Fluffy ...

Food, shelter and no future offspring. Opponents say Cape Town’s proposed baboon sanctuary comes with an expiry date for two ...

Charming footage captures an adult baboon taking charge of a tiny youngster during an adorable encounter in the wild. The video shows the adult moving around with the baby clinging closely to its body ...

An acoustical analysis of the grunts, barks, wahoos, copulation calls, and yaks from baboons shows that, like people who use several vowels during speech, these nonhuman primates make five distinct ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has shed light on baboons, moonlight and their link to an ancient Egyptian deity. A paper published in Time and Mind focuses on a god named Thoth—an ...

According to Ancient Egyptian legends, the Land of Punt was a mysterious kingdom covered in tropical vegetation, inhabited by exotic animals and rich in treasures, including gold, gemstones, ...