Chimpanzees are adapted to live across diverse habitats in Africa, but little is known about the potential adaptation of chimps in different environments. A new study has found that these apes ...

“There is increasing recognition that preserving cultural behaviours in wild animals – such as stone-tool use in West-African chimpanzees – should be incorporated into conservation effort ...

An African forest elephant returns from the beach at Petit Loango, Gabon. Chimpanzee Filmed for the first time, one very special chimp has found a new source of food.

A 55-year-old chimpanzee died after a health decline at a Michigan zoo. Screengrab from John Ball Zoo Facebook post A chimpanzee’s “sweet faces” graced the exhibits at a Michigan zoo for ...

Chimpanzees, for example ... contributed to generating the remarkable diversity found among the African apes. Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided ...

Chimps have genetically adapted to thrive in their natural habitats and avoid deadly malaria, according to a new study. The primates are our closest living relatives, sharing more than 98% of ...

But featuring ANY privately owned chimp in the program would be enough ... that explains how Hondo was captured illegally in Africa as an infant, and shipped to the United States as a pet before ...

West African chimpanzees primates are part of an estimated nationwide chimp population of around 6000 believed to have gone down five-fold from 30 years ago. Sign up now for the latest news from ...

We begin this discussion of our species' evolution in Africa, near the end of the geological time period known as the Miocene, just before our lineage diverged from that of chimpanzees and bonobos.