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 ...

At Peaceable Primate Sanctuary, Scott Kubisch cares for monkeys — among them Dyson, a baboon — who had been used in research labs or kept in abusive conditions. I almost drove right past it the first ...

“No monkey business: ‘E.T.’ born in tube,” proclaimed the July 28, 1983 San Antonio Express-News headline, announcing the birth of the city’s newest resident. At 2-pounds, 1 ounce, little “E.T.” was ...

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 ...

Baboons learn from other baboons about new food sources -- but only if they are bold or anxious. The results suggest that personality plays a key role in social learning in animals, something ...