By Spoorthy Raman Between 2000 and 2023, more than 6,000 African primates were traded internationally in 50 countries, ...

On Friday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that all chimpanzees are now protected under the Endangered Species Act. The shift means that chimps, both in the wild and held in ...

Researchers at the University of College London recently undertook a massive study to better understand chimps. The team analyzed data from fecal samples of 828 wild chimpanzees across 30 populations, ...

A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University Anthropology Professor Jill Pruetz long suspected that man-made changes influenced the aggressive behavior researchers have observed among chimpanzees. However, her ...

A recent study on chimpanzees in Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, revealed that chimpanzees are losing traditions of male mating gestures. This coincides with declining chimpanzee ...

Juvenile bonobo embraces a distressed companion during post-conflict consolation. Psychologists from Durham University, UK, observed the behaviour of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether ...

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 ...