Every day, an hour or so after sunset and just before dawn, a phenomenal assembly of primates that reside in the remote reaches of the network that makes Mt Suswa caves, takes place. The caves, ...

Many anthropologists assume that until our evolutionary ancestors learned to control fire to keep predators at bay, primates avoided caves. Two separate studies in Africa now indicate that some groups ...

Chucking stones at baboons; the first hominin passtime? From The Making of Man. For the Australian anatomist Raymond Dart, the fossilized bones scattered among the caves of South Africa were ...

"In the baboon group we studied, the more socially connected, higher-ranking individuals usually walk in the middle of the group, while lower-ranking baboons are often out in front or at the rear.

Researchers at Swansea University have discovered that baboons walk in lines, not for safety or strategy, but simply to stay close to their friends. Baboons often travel in structured line formations ...

Baboons are one of the most widespread of Africa's primate groups. They range across sub-Saharan Africa and into the Arabian Peninsula. Baboons' ability to spread across such a vast geographic area is ...

Baboons are remarkable animals. While they often are written off as unintelligent violently aggressive creatures and bear the brunt of uninformed slurs, nothing could be further from the truth about ...

Partial baboon skeleton from Misgrot Cave, South Africa. This is one of the comparative assemblages the authors used in the analysis. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

For 50 years, researchers in Kenya have studied more than 1,500 baboons across eight generations. What they’ve learned could apply to our lives, too. After darting a baboon named Olduvai in Kenya’s ...