World Chimpanzee Day is meant to honor one of humans' closest animal relatives, but a new video from Ape Action Africa points to a much more painful reality: Some baby chimpanzees ...

Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, sharing roughly 98.8% of human DNA. They can hang from one arm for around 35 ...

Young chimpanzees learn their communication style from their mother and maternal relatives, but show little similarity to the communication behavior of their father and paternal relatives, according ...

For years, Charla Nash and Sandra Herold had been close friends. Nash regularly visited Herold at her home in Stamford, Connecticut, and she was familiar with Travis, Herold’s 14 year old chimpanzee.

The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden announced the addition of Kirsty, a 14-year-old female chimpanzee, to the Zoo's 1,500-strong animal collection. Kirsty arrived at the Zoo at the end of May, ...

The more we try to understand chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, the more we find ourselves humbled by the richness and complexity of their lives — and of their intelligence. Today, on World ...

Barrels of cherries. Handfuls of snow. A stuffed Eeyore, laid to rest amongst an offering of sunflowers and roses.

CHIMPANZEES should take their rightful place alongside humans within the genus Homo. The biologists behind the resurrection of this controversial idea, say that the latest advances in genetics reveal ...

The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to hear a case brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project, a legal advocacy organization focused on animal rights, which argued that seven chimpanzees, currently ...

When we think about what sets humans apart from other animals, language often comes to mind. Language is more than words—it also relies on the ability to build shared understanding through ...

When we think about what sets humans apart from other animals, language often comes to mind. Language is more than words – it also relies on the ability to build shared understanding through ...