To find out if baboons, which are particularly sociable monkeys, are capable of this level of sophistication, researchers conducted an experiment at a French primate centre. Eighteen Guinea ...

Mandrills have blue colored bottoms ... to identification when comparing these two primates. Baboons come in the normal ...

They also responded to the laser pointer alone — when scientists put the dot on the visible body parts of 91 baboons, the monkeys pawed at it 64 percent of the time. But only one of the 51 ...

Though it looks like a baboon, the mandrill is a monkey of its own; it is closer genetically to the white-eyelid mangabey ...