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

One primate at the Save the Chimps sanctuary in Fort Pierce was captured on camera happily chowing down on a banana after the ...

The federal government has effectively shelved a bill meant to phase out the captivity and import and export of elephants and great apes in Canada. Some animal advocates suspect it has to do with the ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

Chimpanzees are handy with tools. They’re known to use sticks to “fish” for ants and algae, make sponges from moss or leaves, and fashion simple spears for hunting. But exactly how the animals pick up ...

Across the Western world, young men and boys face a changing economy, with fewer manual labor jobs and factory floors that used to give a swathe of working-class men purpose and value. This leaves a ...

Chimpanzees are known to use rudimentary tools when foraging for food. According to a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, this learned behavior is passed down from adults to offspring ...