One day in the 1880s, a peg-legged railway signalman named James Edwin Wide was visiting a buzzing South African market when he witnessed something surreal: A chacma baboon driving an oxcart.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock One wildlife photographer's stunning shot is drawing attention to the sweet relationship between young ...

Say what you like, but sometimes the Internet really delivers. I felt like I was given a gift the first time I saw this video of a baboon’s response to a basic magic trick. It starts with a wan zoo ...

An acoustical analysis of the grunts, barks, wahoos, copulation calls, and yaks from baboons shows that, like people who use several vowels during speech, these nonhuman primates make five distinct ...

According to Ancient Egyptian legends, the Land of Punt was a mysterious kingdom covered in tropical vegetation, inhabited by exotic animals and rich in treasures, including gold, gemstones, ...

"I don't see a chance of this poor cub surviving," the photographer said of the event Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles Bureau as ...

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A R10m centre near Scarborough has been completed for the Seaforth and Waterfall baboon troops, but their proposed relocation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Egyptians traded with people in what is today coastal Eritrea to bring baboons to their temples, according to a new study ...