Though it looks like a baboon, the mandrill is a monkey of its own; it is closer genetically to the white-eyelid mangabey ...

To find out if baboons, which are particularly sociable monkeys, are capable of this level of sophistication, researchers conducted an experiment at a French primate centre. Eighteen Guinea ...

They also responded to the laser pointer alone — when scientists put the dot on the visible body parts of 91 baboons, the monkeys pawed at it 64 percent of the time. But only one of the 51 ...