To reach the top spot and stay there, male baboons must rely on their strength and battle skills to jockey for position and earn their place. The dominant male in a group also jealously guards his ...

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 ...

These large, powerful monkeys both inhabit Africa ... These are headed by older males and include the female mates of the ...

Instead, it's the effort they put into their mates. That's according to a new study of wild baboons in Kenya led by Duke University professor Susan Alberts with Catherine Markham at Stony Brook ...

Monkeys come in all shapes and sizes and ... Blisters will form on the female’s red chest when she is most receptive to mating. Yellow baboon males can weigh up to 55 pounds.

Alpha male baboons may earn the right to preside over ... due to the amount of time they spend guarding and monitoring their mates. “They’re essentially staking a claim; preventing other ...