Dr. Hannah Arens, the Sedgwick County Zoo's director of animal health, made a call to several local surgeons after young ...

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

Between 1998 and 2009, John Mitani witnessed 18 murders firsthand, and found circumstantial evidence for three more. But no police were ever called, for these killers were all chimpanzees, from the ...

Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social bonds. A new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University ...

We've spent decades changing how people see chimpanzees. Movies like 'Primate' threaten all that progress.

Male chimpanzees at the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire are shown eating. A new study finds chimpanzees at this site have a predilection for fruits high in alcohol content. Photograph By Aleksey ...

For decades, animals like chimpanzees have been treated as property under the law. Lawyer Steven Wise argues that this ...

A new scientific paper reports that chimpanzees “are capable of” producing sounds that mimic words they hear from people. It follows recent research revealing that chimpanzees can gesture to one ...

Despite being one of the most cooperative species on the planet, humans routinely fail to manage shared resources sustainably ...

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 ...

Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered "persons" with human rights, according to the state's Court of Appeals. That means the owners of the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula will not need ...