A heartwarming video of chimps being released from a lab in Louisiana to the Project Chimps sanctuary in Georgia once again put chimps in the spotlight. Some of them had spent their entire lives ...

“In every case, the experimenter was an individual with whom the chimpanzees had worked for a decade or more,” Brosnan tells Lab Animal. “I think that they would have been even less likely ...

Three years ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would no longer support experimentation on chimpanzees. The NIH stated that all of the chimps that it “owns” or supports ...

Retired lab chimpanzees housed in a New Mexico facility are headed for greener pastures in an animal sanctuary next spring.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to relocate 23 retired research chimpanzees from New Mexico to a sanctuary in ...

Scientists have long marveled at chimps' ability to pass down intricate behaviours. "Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills -- a ...