An adult male and infant baboon in the Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya. This doesn’t necessarily show that father-daughter bonding improves longevity; it may be that healthy young females, already destined ...

Editor’s Note (9/25/19): On September 25 evolutionary anthropologist Jenny Tung of Duke University was named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. Tung’s research on the consequences of early life adversity in ...

A study reveals that dominant members of primate troops miss out on restful nights. The post ‘Heavy is the head that wears ...

A male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub is a rare sight, yet it happened over the weekend in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The baboon took the cub up into a tree and preened it as if it ...

This very brave leopard thought it was a good idea to hunt a troop of baboons, but, he immediately regretted it when they beat him up in a major attack. Thirty-year-old accountant and bush lover, ...

Unruly gangs are raiding the expensive homes that line the spectacular coast of South Africa's Cape Peninsula, clearing out pantries, emptying fridges, and defecating over the designer furnishings. It ...

You know the type: Loud. Swaggering. Pushy. The alpha male clearly runs the show. Female alphas are often less conspicuous than their puffed up male counterparts, but holding the top spot still has ...

ALTHOUGH simians are widespread and occasionally numerous in South Africa, more especially in those parts which are wooded or mountainous, they belong to only five — or, if one excludes the ...

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 ...