For years, Travis the chimpanzee lived like a human child. He dressed himself, ate at the table, rode in cars, and appeared in commercials. Neighbors and police officers considered him harmless. Then, ...

Few animals look as calm and harmless as a hippo lounging in the water, but appearances can be deceiving. Dangerously so, in the case of the hippo. Despite their bulky bodies and seemingly lazy nature ...

Michael Jackson got Bubbles in 1983 when the chimp was just eight months old. He slept in a crib inside the singer's room and ...

“One of the main findings is that all chimpanzee kids are risky, and that infant and juvenile chimpanzees are even more risky ...

We remember Ai, a highly intelligent chimpanzee who lived at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University for most of ...

Why penguin-eating pumas live closer together in Patagonia, the reason chimps can reason, ants sacrifice individuals for the ...

Michel Tama Sadiakhou's future dramatically changed course some 15 years ago thanks to a clan of spear-wielding apes: instead ...

It’s a new twist on an old trope: The ape as stalker has a long tradition in Hollywood going back to at least the 1980s.

As Americans continue to debate diets, calories and protein sources, Steven Rinella of Montana has a simpler definition of healthy eating: Go outside and get your food. "The act of going and getting ...

The claim sounds precise enough to pass as true. Eight spiders a year, eaten while asleep. It’s the kind of fact people insist they picked up in school or heard repeated often enough to trust. The ...