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 ...

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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A baby hamadryas baboon was recently born at the San Diego Zoo and can now be viewed by visitors in the Africa Rocks habitat. The male infant baboon is named Defari, which ...

New research shows female Kinda baboons who have strong social connections with other female and male baboons, or are more dominant, have babies who become independent faster than others. They are the ...

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 ...

When a baby born prematurely was in need of a new heart, doctors found the answer in an unlikely and controversial source: a baboon. What happened next captivated the nation and ignited conversation ...

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 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 ...