Self-awareness may be beyond primates in the wild. Chimps, organutans and other species faced with a mirror react to a dot on their face in the lab, a widely used measure of self-awareness. But while ...

Wild baboons failed to demonstrate visual self-recognition in a test carried out by anthropologists. Published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study found that while the baboons ...

A lone baboon found itself surrounded by a pack of African wild dogs in a rare encounter. It had to find a way out. Thirty-four-year-old Marcel Kühn, an online personal trainer and avid wildlife ...

LONDON — When 112 wild baboons encountered mirrors for the first time in Namibia’s desert landscape, scientists watched eagerly. Would these clever primates recognize their own reflections, like ...

Humans like to study themselves in a mirror. But wild baboons, when presented with a mirror, don’t seem to recognize they’re staring at their own selves, a new study has found. For decades, ...

Chacma baboons in Tsaobis Nature Park, Namibia. Credit: Dr. Alecia Carter In Namibia, the researchers began by allowing the baboons a period of mirror exposure to learn about the reflective surface.

In a previous Psychology Today post (here), I argued that humans are the only species to keep pets. (Calm down — I know about Koko's kitten, etc. While long-term odd couple attachments between species ...

For baboons in Kenya finding nonfamilial love in a small isolated place can be tough. A new study looks at the various ways they keep their family and romantic lives from getting too intertwined. The ...