Dominant baboons sleep less at night, as social rank keeps leaders more alert and prone to nighttime disruptions.

The Nuremberg Zoo has killed 12 baboons due to chronic overcrowding, a decision that has triggered widespread public upset and legal complaints. Six of these baboons were dismembered and fed to ...

Twelve baboons were shot dead at a German zoo because there was not enough space in their enclosure. Tiergarten Nürnberg zoo has sparked outcry from animal rights groups after culling the healthy ...

A group of baboons thought it was safe to climb down from a tree when a buffalo wandered off, but they were wrong. In a hysterical video posted by Wild Friends Africa, nearly a dozen baboons acting ...

There are always surprises looming in the study of animal behavior. Just this week I learned that rare and critically endangered Ethiopian wolves living in the alpine grasslands form a pact with ...

Egyptian geese are aggressively territorial. During mating, they are monogamous, making it likely the pair fighting the ...

Two recent examples of zoos in the news raise serious questions about the troubling nature of human-animal relationships. A few days ago, we learned that Germany's Tiergarten Nurnberg zoo killed 12 ...