One of Africa's rarest monkeys likely interbred with baboons in its past, new genetic research suggests. The large monkey called Rungwecebus kipunji, or kipunji for short, was only discovered in 2003, ...

MINERAL WELLS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - A baboon (yes, a baboon) was spotted wandering around a home in Mineral Wells Friday morning, and it was captured on video by a local resident. Bradee Hay told CBS ...

NEW YORK -- The Bronx Zoo is showing off its bouncy new addition. A baby Gelada baboon is now living in the exhibit with the other baboons. He spent his first six months indoors with his mother. The ...

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 and power lines remain a terrible combination. The most recent evidence comes from the East African nation of Zambia, where a baboon knocked out power in a popular tourist town of Livingstone ...

A male baboon was photographed kidnapping a young lion cub at Kruger National Park in South Africa this weekend, before grooming and caring for it as though it were a young baboon. The monkey was ...