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 ...

The Animal Sighting article on The South African website features weekly wildlife videos. Today’s video shows cheetah ...

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 ...

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 ...