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, ...

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 ...

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When it comes to stress for baboons and people it's all about hierarchy. Sept. 22, 2008 — -- Baboons are aggressive, mean-spirited and wild. And when it comes to stress, apparently they are just ...

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 ...

They’re not afraid of the dark. A group of chacma baboons in South Africa’s De Hoop Nature Reserve and a group of ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar have been spotted taking shelter and even sleeping in ...

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