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.

Say what you like, but sometimes the Internet really delivers. I felt like I was given a gift the first time I saw this video of a baboon’s response to a basic magic trick. It starts with a wan zoo ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Johannesburg — It was a normal holiday morning. My family was getting up for the day and my husband had just left for a meeting. I was holding one of my children in my arms and another by the hand ...

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 ...

A baboon snatched up a baby gazelle and tore it to shreds in front of a wildlife photographer at a Kenya preserve -- a gory scene that was caught on camera. Baboons and gazelles often roam ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Egyptians traded with people in what is today coastal Eritrea to bring baboons to their temples, according to a new study ...

If you’re a baboon, being in charge gives you a lot of advantages: you have better access to food, you get more action from the ladies, and your kids tend to grow faster and live longer. Low-rankers, ...