Zoo Miami recently celebrated milestone birthdays for two iconic chimpanzees who have called the zoo home since the early 1980s. Samantha arrived at Zoo Miami (then known as Miami Metrozoo) […] The ...

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"Alpha" is a position of enormous strength and importance for chimpanzees. Before the war and the split of the Ngogo chimpanzees into two groups, Jackson was alpha of everyone, more than 200 ...

In the entire animal kingdom, no name is as synonymous to a specific species as British primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall is to chimpanzees. Goodall, 78, is best known for her endless research on wild ...

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results show that eastern and ...

Chimpanzees are known for their remarkable intelligence and use of tools, but could their cultures also evolve over time like human cultures? A new, multidisciplinary study suggests that some of their ...

Chimpanzee teens may not be so different from the ones living in our homes, a new study says. Except that your teen might be more impulsive. Researchers worked with 40 chimpanzees born in the wild ...

“I would give anything that I have, possession-wise, for that child. I would give my life for him,” Tonia Haddix says in a trailer for HBO’s “Chimp Crazy” docuseries. She’s talking about Tonka, the 32 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British ethologist and primatologist Jane Goodall, who paved the way for other women in primatology, has died. (Joel Saget / AFP ...

BLUE RIDGE, Ga. — A Georgia animal nonprofit nestled in the mountains is holding a special medical event for one of its exotic residents at the end of January. Project Chimps, located in Blue Ridge, ...

In Burundi, large-scale tea production is hampering efforts to protect endangered species, such as chimpanzees. A tea plantation stretches as far as the eye can see on the edge of Kibira National Park ...

Today, Zoo Miami celebrated milestone birthdays for two iconic chimpanzees who have called the zoo home since the early ...