JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Conservationist Rita Miljo, who cared for and reintroduced packs of baboons back into the wilds of South Africa, died in a fire that destroyed much of the headquarters of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Instead, I turned and was shocked to see Split Lip, the alpha male baboon from the troop that was frequenting Misty Cliffs, a ...

Baboons seeking snacks are breaking into tourists' cars in South Africa, and authorities have threatened to fine visitors who give them food and encourage their aggressive pursuit of bananas and ...

Animals have learned how to open car doors, jump through windows to grab snacks. A baboon attempts to open the door of a car at Cape Point on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday.

JOHANNESBURG - Baboons, it seems, prefer pinot noir. They also like a nice chardonnay. Largely undeterred by electric fences, hundreds of wild baboons in South Africa's prized wine country are finding ...

The baboon was associated with several deities in early African civilizations and frequently represented in their art. It ...

A road patrol officer was filmed assisting two baboons as they tentatively crossed Simon’s Town’s busy main road. The footage, which emerged over the weekend, was originally uploaded on Instagram by ...

In one of the most widely read posts on the Animals and Us blog (here), I discussed whether a troop of hamadryas baboons living in a garbage dump at Taif, Saudi Arabia kidnap puppies and raise them as ...

Johannesburg — It was a normal holiday morning. My family was getting up for the day and my husband had just left for a meeting. I was holding one of my children in my arms and another by the hand ...