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BABOON WATCH: Primatologists Rassina Farassi, left, and Emanuela Rabajoli track two troops of baboons in Gorongosa National Park in Chitengo, Mozambique.

May 04, 2026, 12:50 p.m. ET

| Chitengo, Mozambique

Rassina Farassi steps gingerly onto a scrubby, rain-slicked landscape dotted by thorny acacias and fever trees with mustard-yellow trunks. Clutching binoculars in one hand and a GPS device in the other, she scans the horizon for the objects of her attention: 13 chacma baboons ( Papio ursinus ) fitted with radio collars.

For eight months of the year, Ms. Farassi observes and tracks the baboons’ movements in Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique.…