Thomas Mulligan examines the fascinating and unexpected outcomes of a controversial experiment where a primate was integrated ...

A new Instagram post is giving viewers a rare look inside one of the world's most famous chimpanzee research sites.

There are many kinds of laughter. People may guffaw at a joke. They may giggle nervously in an uncomfortable situation. They ...

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that chimpanzees and bonobos form close inner circles along with wider networks of ...

Every evening, as they move from place to place through the forest, chimpanzees stop to build a nest – most often in a tree – to sleep in. Using a selection of branches, leaves and twigs, they create ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Western male chimps attack Basie in 2019. Basie, center and grimacing, was a member of the Central chimps. - Aaron Sandel Aaron ...

Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing a group of apes on June 24, 2015, in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, where the project ...

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate... What a chimpanzee 'civil war' can teach us about ...

In the mid-1970s, more than a decade into her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, the late and legendary primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that horrified her. The ...