She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson ...

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK, Uganda (AP) — The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go — except up in the trees. KIBALE NATIONAL PARK, Uganda (AP ...

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

SOME OLD FRIENDS. SO ABBY’S CARRYING IVY. SHE’S IVY’S FOSTER MOM, AND THEN FOLLOWING THEM AROUND. IS LOLA IN THE CHIMPANZEE FOREST AT THE MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE. THEY DON’T KNOW IT YET, BUT THE ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

On the genetic level, we're not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in dna can have massive effects. Learn what makes us truly different from chimpanzees in this new episode of ...

When Aristotle claimed that humans differ from other animals because they have the ability to be rational, he understood rational to mean that we could form our views and beliefs based on evidence, ...

A chimpanzee got out of its enclosure at the Indianapolis Zoo, forcing the zoo to be placed on lockdown.It all unfolded around 10 a.m. when the zoo said a female chimpanzee was seen outside her ...

A chimpanzee escaped its enclosure and was on the loose at the Indianapolis Zoo Friday morning, but the animal was later located and returned to her exhibit, the zoo said. "At approximately 10am, a ...