The federal government has effectively shelved a bill meant to phase out the captivity and import and export of elephants and ...

Pasa and Yoyo, two female chimpanzees, are best friends. They spend their afternoons lounging together in the warm grass of the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda, grooming and sharing food.

The villagers who first spotted the five baby orangutans in a casuarina forest in India in early September were puzzled by ...

The largest spider in the world and the first on our list is the impressively named Goliath birdeater. Hailing from the ...

The orangutans are now being cared for at an Indian zoo, where keepers have reportedly played classical music to calm them.

In West Africa, wild chimpanzees are doing something once thought to be uniquely human: making weapons to hunt. Using ...

Bow is believed to be the last chimpanzee kept as a private pet in the United States. He lives alone in Missouri while ...

People in leadership positions tend to rate themselves as more risk-loving than those without leadership responsibilities—and ...

Humans and chimpanzees share almost all their genes. Despite this, our brains have developed in different ways. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now shown that a viral pandemic dating ...

MOTHER ON DEATHBED SAYS 12-YEAR-OLD SON IS OFFSPRING OF HUMAN-CHIMPANZEE LOVE AFFAIR. The "screenshot" continued: The genetic ...

In recent years, scientists have shown that chimpanzees favor certain peers by picking whom they prefer to groom and selectively sharing food. The behavior offers a glimpse into humanity’s prosocial ...