A male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub is a rare sight, yet it happened over the weekend in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The baboon took the cub up into a tree and preened it as if it ...

The Oakland Zoo has a new sentient potato — wait, make that baby Himalayan baboon, who is 6 weeks old and called Jasiri (“Jah-seer-ee”). The minuscule creature is the offspring of parent baboons Kodee ...

Hamadryas baboons are found in the wild in large numbers in Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the zoo said. They live in troops of several hundred baboons. Daniella Segura McClatchy News A ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A baby hamadryas baboon was recently born at the San Diego Zoo and can now be viewed by visitors in the Africa Rocks habitat. The male infant baboon is named Defari, which ...

These researchers had already found that nearly 70% of newborn baboons, like human babies, had early asymmetry in the planum temporale(PT)area of the brain. The PT, which is also a key area for ...

The Oakland Zoo is celebrating the arrival of the firstborn of its third generation of Hamadryas baboons. The baby boy, named Mousa, was born to a mother named Mocha last month, and was brought ...

JOHANNESBURG — A male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub is an unusual sight, yet it happened over the weekend in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. The baboon took the cub up into a tree and ...

If Mousa, a new baboon born at Oakland Zoo last month, ever gets lonely for family, he won’t have to look far. The zoo is home to his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and a few cousins, too. Mousa ...

The North Carolina Zoo is experiencing a baboon baby boom. The zoo just welcomed its third baby baboon in the past two months. Zanzibar, a male hamadryas baboon, was born Thursday morning. Jodi Wiley, ...

WASHINGTON — Leonard Bailey, a pediatric surgeon who attracted international attention in 1984 when he transplanted a baboon’s heart into a newborn human — ‘‘Baby Fae’’ — a medical moon shot that ...

The planum temporale area in the left hemisphere (shown in red), an area essential for language in humans, is larger than that in the right hemisphere (shown in green) in the majority of baboons. Only ...