Skip to main content Skip to footer Already a subscriber?    Log in Already have a subscription?    Activate it Ready for constructive world news? Join the Monitor community. Subscribe 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. The daughter of maize farmers from northern Cabo Delgado province, she is Mozambique’s first female primatologist.…