Baboon politics say a lot about human politics: It's tough to be on top, and the key to staying there is to know when to stress over the competition. Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford University, ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Close bonds with the opposite sex can have non-romantic benefits. And not just for people, but for our primate cousins, too. Drawing on 35 years of data, a new study of more than 540 ...

We all seek leaders we can trust. But in our rush to blame leaders for our disappointments, we may not notice our own expections of our leaders. Often, we expect them to benefit our private interests, ...

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 ...

Monkeys can’t count. But they can mentally keep track of and compare approximate quantities that increase one item at a time. That shows that monkeys use a kind of reasoning that also underlies human ...

Baboons don’t read, don’t speak and perhaps can’t understand language at all. But scientists have found that they can learn to recognize writing on a computer screen, identifying correctly most of the ...

Baboons are large, smart, ground-dwelling monkeys. They are found across sub-Saharan Africa in various habitats and eat a flexible diet including meat, eggs, and plants. And they are known ...

We all seek leaders we can trust. But in our rush to blame leaders for our disappointments, we may not notice our own expections of our leaders. Often, we expect them to benefit our private interests, ...