One morning, I was leading a game drive at Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya, when we came across a small herd of Thomson's gazelles grazing and nearby a troop of 50-60 olive baboons foraging, some on ...

The more we study animals, the less special we seem. Baboons can distinguish between written words and gibberish. Monkeys seem to be able to do multiplication. Apes can delay instant gratification ...

The relative lack of aggression among female bonobos could be explained by the species' well-studied use of sex to defuse ...

In the animal kingdom, hunting behavior is often associated with large carnivores, but some primates also prey on other primates. Footage reveals chimpanzees coordinating group hunts to capture ...

Intelligent, tool-using, empathetic and self-aware: the distance between humans and other animals is not as great as you ...

A baboon on top of a sign post in Buliisa. A chimpanzee has attacked and critically injured a child in Hoima.Photo by Emmanuel Okello.

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Young primates in a southern African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention to a younger brother or sister. By Annie Roth Annie Roth has reported on ...

Authorities in Cape Town, South Africa, have released an updated baboon action plan aimed at reducing conflict between people and baboons, which regularly enter urban areas in search of food. The plan ...

A chimpanzee broke out of her enclosure at the Indianapolis Zoo Friday morning, sparking a lockdown that trapped dozens of visitors — including 37 schoolchildren on a field trip. Jake Oakman, the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A chimpanzee was on the loose inside the Indianapolis Zoo on Friday as guests were asked to head back to their cars or shelter in secure locations. An Indianapolis Fire Department run ...

At the end of Part 1 of our series, a team from the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center was headed to Tanzania. There they would collaborate with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) to create a ...