Researcher extroardinaire Jane Goodall, who has studied chimpanzees for more than four decades, will distill her expertise this weekend at two events: The Roots & Shoots Discovery stage show for kids ...

Remember when the critics said your art was so simple that a monkey could do it? Well it turns out they were right. 37-year-old Brent is a retired laboratory primate living at the Chimp Haven ...

Cinematic qualities aside, “Chimp Crazy” is going to set some viewers’ teeth on edge from the very beginning and for very good reason. On the one hand, it is about interspecies devotion, affection and ...

Chimpanzees can pick out crystals from a pile of ordinary rocks, handle them with visible care, and even hold them up to peer ...

Scientists have long known that chimpanzees pass on cultural traditions, such as tool use, from generation to generation—just like humans. However, while human culture continuously evolves and builds ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

PETA is once again going after the woman who tried to fake a chimpanzee’s death in 2021. In a new motion filed Wednesday, the animal rights organization accused exotic animal broker Tonia Haddix of ...

In the 1950s, Japanese zoologists noticed that a group of macaques developed a new food-washing technique and spread the knowledge throughout their ranks. If these primates could communicate and teach ...

"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills—a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations ...

When people talk to each other, their conversations usually include many fast twists. Humans do not naturally talk in Shakespearean soliloquies, but by regularly interrupting and wildly gesticulating.