Scientists have identified dozens of previously overlooked cultural behaviors in wild chimpanzees, suggesting that the great ...

For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: adolescence. It's also unusual.

The once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees have been at loggerheads for the last eight years.

Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University and Universidad Carlos III de ...

Learn about the similarities between the wrist bones of humans and African apes, which may point to shared knuckle-walking ...

Chimpanzee nest-building behavior may reveal an ability to respond to weather cues before nighttime conditions fully arrive.

SACRAMENTO - The Sacramento Zoo will no longer house chimpanzees, it says. A statement from the zoo on Saturday said their four chimpanzees would be moved to other much larger zoos that provide the ...

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Showing chimpanzees dressed in clothes and clowning around in films and commercials may not be particularly dignified, but it fosters sympathy for the species and makes people want to protect them in ...

A once large and peaceful group of chimpanzees in the western forests of Uganda has now split into two, causing a rare “civil war” among the primates.

About ten years ago, Stephen Ross began getting more and more calls from chimpanzee owners who wanted to get rid of their pets. Ross is the director of the Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation ...