A Zimbabwean mother saved her son from the grips of a baboon's mouth after the animal tried to snatch him away, she told VOA (Voice of America). Petronella Moyo said her 18-month-old child was ...

Altuna spotted a leopard carrying a dead Kinda baboon in its mouth. But remarkably, the photographer also noticed that a baby baboon was clinging onto its mother, still alive.

Only recently, a baboon’s cornea was successfully grafted onto a man’s eye. A pig’s liver, although it tolerates human blood, is not nearly so sophisticated as the baboon’s.

One baboon named Simon was a good father, a “nice guy” to female baboons, while his brother Garfunkel was “more grumpy.” “Over time you get to know them so well,” says Weyher.

Mummified remains of baboons in Egypt found over a century ago have long puzzled researchers. The primates were not native to Egypt and had their canine teeth removed before being preserved.

Of the 199 baboons in the study, 75 percent suffered through at least one stressor, and 33 percent had two or more. Their results confirm previous findings that the more hardship a female baboon ...