The Oakland Zoo has a new sentient potato — wait, make that baby Himalayan baboon, who is 6 weeks old and called Jasiri (“Jah-seer-ee”). The minuscule creature is the offspring of parent baboons Kodee ...

These researchers had already found that nearly 70% of newborn baboons, like human babies, had early asymmetry in the planum temporale(PT)area of the brain. The PT, which is also a key area for ...

Hamadryas baboons are found in the wild in large numbers in Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the zoo said. They live in troops of several hundred baboons. Daniella Segura McClatchy News A ...

ASHEBORO, N.C.-- The NC Zoo officials proudly announced Friday that a new addition was born there last week. A baby baboon was born on April 9. Zoo keepers said both mother and baby are already on ...

A “playful” baby baboon has a curious nature — and he’s delighting visitors at the North Carolina Zoo. Video shows Edgar the little primate bouncing around as he spent precious moments with his family ...

are doing everything possible to save a rare, baby baboon. "There are only 56 [baboons] right now in captivity, so these little guys are really important," said Cindy Martin, a baboon keeper. "They ...

The Oakland Zoo is hosting a contest to name its brand new baby baboon. The baby boy was born April 1, and he's the first ever male baboon born at the Oakland Zoo. You can vote for his name at the ...

The North Carolina Zoo is experiencing a baboon baby boom. The zoo just welcomed its third baby baboon in the past two months. Zanzibar, a male hamadryas baboon, was born Thursday morning. Jodi Wiley, ...

The planum temporale area in the left hemisphere (shown in red), an area essential for language in humans, is larger than that in the right hemisphere (shown in green) in the majority of baboons. Only ...