These friendships often lasted for life, and scientists say they show how male primates can use kindness and affection to socially succeed.

“However, mating with relatives can bring such [deleterious genetic variants] together,” which is bad news for offspring. To avoid inbreeding, maturing primates tend to leave their original social ...

Among baboons, alpha males pay a high price for dominance In baboon society, males occupy a central position, and intense competition determines access to both females for mating and food resources.

Baboons, however, live their entire lives in close and continuous ... In Amboseli, males tend to leave groups if they have had low mating success and to join ones with a relatively low ratio of adult ...

Also used as a general term referring to a social group of monkeys (especially baboons). Cords, M. "Mating systems of forest guenons: A preliminary review," in A Primate Radiation: Evolutionary ...

Encounters between baboons and people are common in parts of South Africa. WhatsApp groups often share stories of baboons raiding a kitchen and stealing all the food. And stories appear in the ...

In a heartwarming and whimsical display of nature's antics, a troop of baboons turned a Cape Town backyard into an unexpected party zone, captivating viewers across social media with their playful ...

He has participated in the full range of field studies that we have carried out on the baboons: growth studies, foraging studies, play studies, mating and mate choice studies, and everything in ...