It’s complicated: New research reveals more about the social networks of baboons and African monkeys (opens in new tab)

Like people, nonhuman primates live in groups that vary in their size and shape depending on the species. Some primate groups are small and simple, others are large and more layered.Over the decades, primatologists have observed that baboons and other closely related monkeys, the African papionins, typically live in two types of social groups: single-level and multilevel societies.