Meet the gelada - a primate that looks like a baboon but behaves like no other. With massive fangs, a fierce glare, and a blood-red chest patch, it cosplays as a carnivore, ...

A shaggy male gelada pauses during his morning ascent from a cliff above East Africa’s Great Rift Valley. Hundreds of the world’s only grass-eating monkeys thrive on this plateau in the ...

Gelada communication doesn’t appear to have syntax or grammar. However, Gustison says, the monkeys “have this underlying structure that allows them to maybe have a more complex way of ...

What A Chatty Ethiopian Monkey May Tell Us About How We Learned To Talk The gelada, found in Ethiopia, makes a gurgling noise that scientists say is close to human speech — at least in how much ...

On Spain’s Costa Blanca, Serra Gelada Natural Park has become a favourite among trail runners for its unique combination of rugged mountain terrain and coastal views. With cliffs that rise ...

I have been a little tied up with other writing duties today, so in lieu of a “normal” post here is another snapshot from my trip to the Bronx Zoo last weekend. It is of a young male gelada ...

A relaxed gelada male stares down over the cliff edge as one of his many females grooms him. Down below, over a hundred gelada monkeys are slowly making their way to the top of the plateau in ...

Research published in the Feb. 24, 2012, issue of the journal Science suggests that when male gelada monkeys take over a reproductive group, the pregnant monkeys in the group spontaneously ...

A young female gelada is photographed grooming the dominant breeding male in her group. Photo by Rachel Perlman. Nov. 5 (UPI) --Primates can alter the rate at which they reach sexual maturity.

The gelada is the only species remaining from a lineage of grazing primates once more common than baboons, says Robin Dunbar, who studied geladas in the 1970s.

An international research team has put together the first gelada reference genome, assembled from a single wild adult female gelada from the Simien Mountains, Ethiopia. They combined it with a ...

Feeling right at home (Image: Jeff Kerby. Project funding: National Geographic) In the alpine grasslands of eastern Africa, Ethiopian wolves and gelada monkeys are giving peace a chance.