A man jogs past as a chacma baboon forages in the garden of a home in a suburban neighborhood of Da Game Park, near Simon's Town, outside of Cape Town, South Africa, Oct. 31, 2024.

The SPCA has confirmed the the male baboon that was on the loose in the southern suburbs in Cape Town has been captured.

Male baboons will stop at nothing to protect their troop. And Tharos had a lucky escape. As long as the all-seeing baboons live in the woodlands, the siblings will have no luck here.

This week, explore how Cape Town is coping with raiding baboons, marvel at a night-sky phenomenon, join a Hong Kong photographer on a night safari, and more. CNN values your feedback 1.

Baboons often travel in structured line formations known as "progressions" as they move through their home range. Previous studies offered conflicting explanations for this behavior.

Of the 199 baboons in the study, 75 percent suffered through at least one stressor, and 33 percent had two or more. Their results confirm previous findings that the more hardship a female baboon ...

Baboons form lines based on friendships, not strategy, revealing insights into social behavior and challenging previous theories on animal movement.

What wild baboons can teach us about aging. For 50 years, researchers in Kenya have studied more than 1,500 baboons across eight generations. What they’ve learned could apply to our lives, too.

These baboons kind of connect Punt and Adulis in time to connect those dots.” Adulis was first mentioned during the early Ptolemaic period in the third century BCE.

Researchers have discovered that baboons walk in lines, not for safety or strategy, but simply to stay close to their friends. Baboons walking in progression on South Africa’s Cape Peninsula ...