CapeNature orders baboon to be put down

I grew up listening to stories about Tsuro (hare) and Gudo (baboon). They were the Tom and Jerry of our storytelling world. The Shona also have a lot of other well-loved tales featuring other folk heroes besides Tsuro and Gudo. As a storyteller, I ...

I am a firm believer in the values of a free and fair democratic society based on the principles of fairness and justice where equality is ensured for all individuals regardless of the colour of their eyes and the label on their underwear. Unity in ...

Washington, May 4 : A new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that the ability to understand numbers is shared by man and his primate cousins. "The human capacity for complex symbolic math is clearly unique to our species," ...

Math in the News MathDL Home A new study out of the University of Rochester indicates that non-human primates can discriminate between different quantities as accurately as a human child. Conducted at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, NY, the study ...

[ Watch the Video: Baboons Understanding Math ] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Baboons can be as accurate as human children when it comes to discriminating between different quantities of various objects, experts ...

Researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have found that the geladas, a baboon-like primate that are found in the remote mountains of Ethiopia, are the only apes to communicate with a speech-like, undulating rhythm. The vocal ...

Cape Town - A bunch of baboons decided to take over a house in Betty's Bay near Cape Town in South Africa and began ransacking the place. A neighbor caught it all on video and managed to get them to leave. While placed under the category of "Odd ...

Something we've long suspected has proved to be true: Baboons are horrible houseguests. Howard James Fyvie and some friends saw a group of baboons climbing into a house in Betty's Bay, South Africa, whose occupants were gone. It was locked except ...

Cape Town - The alpha male baboon of the Smitswinkel Bay troop has died during a darting operation, described as routine, to replace the battery in the tracking collar that he was wearing. The animal, known officially as SWB3 and unofficially as ...