July 21 (UPI) -- The San Diego Zoo announced the birth of a female hamadryas baboon named Makeda. The zoo said Makeda, who shares her royal name with the Queen of Sheba, was born to mother Anakin and ...

Ask most people across Africa what they think of baboons, and crop damage will probably be the first thing that anyone ...

If Mousa, a new baboon born at Oakland Zoo last month, ever gets lonely for family, he won’t have to look far. The zoo is home to his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and a few cousins, too. Mousa ...

The San Diego Zoo’s newest resident is already turning heads! A hamadryas baboon infant named Makeda is exploring her habitat alongside her troop. Zoo officials announced Tuesday that Makeda was born ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Zoo welcomed its newest member at the end of June — a hamadryas baboon infant. Baby “Makeda” was born to mom Anakin and dad Lex and was named after the Queen of ...

Troops of Hamadryas baboons can reach numbers of 400 strong without a single particular leader. Albeit large, these troops are sub-divided into dozens of smaller harems, which are led by high-ranking ...

Two new baboons made their debut in Brooklyn on Friday, but they’re monkeys in need of monikers. Right now, the first red-bottomed baby Hamadryas baboons to call Prospect Park Zoo home in six years – ...

NEW YORK -- There's a new face at Brooklyn's Prospect Park Zoo. The Wildlife Conservation Society says a male infant Hamadryas baboon is now on view to the public. The baboon was born on Oct. 22. His ...

Hamadryas baboons live in complex, multilevel societies. A pair of anthropologists say Homo erectus did, too. Image courtesy of Wikicommons Call someone a baboon, and you might have to prepare for a ...

The sun rises over the Senegalese savannah. The Guinea baboons have spent the night on their sleeping trees and set off together to forage. In order to depart simultaneously as a group and roam ...