Previous research has shown that infanticide by males is widespread in many mammal species, but most commonly occurs in those species where females live in social groups dominated by one or a few males.
Plants & Animals
Nov 13, 2014
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The ability to build up knowledge over generations, called cumulative culture, has given mankind language and technology. While it was thought to be limited to humans until now, researchers from the Laboratoire de psychologie ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2014
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Social animals often develop relationships with other group members to reduce aggression and gain access to scarce resources. In wild chacma baboons the strategy for grooming activities shows a certain pattern across the ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 11, 2014
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Observations made over the past 29 years in Kenya as part of one of the world's longest-running studies of a wild primate show how having offspring influences the health of female baboons. These observations highlight that ...
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2014
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An Oxford University study has concluded that our ancient ancestors who lived in East Africa between 2.4 million-1.4 million years ago survived mainly on a diet of tiger nuts. Tiger nuts are edible grass bulbs still eaten ...
Archaeology
Jan 8, 2014
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Opposing thumbs, expressive faces, complex social systems: it's hard to miss the similarities between apes and humans. Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less obvious trait—the ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2013
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Young baboons that spend time with their fathers get better meals and reach sexual maturity sooner, scientists say.
Plants & Animals
Jan 29, 2013
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Recent research has brought to light the illegal practice of using mantraps to catch chimps in Uganda.
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Some pairs of female baboons form relationships that look a lot like "friendships," a group of researchers has found.
Plants & Animals
Oct 17, 2012
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In a study published today in The American Naturalist, a group of scientists led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have used a technique developed to study human consumer choices to investigate what influences a baboon's ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 13, 2012
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