Tacugama has grown to become Sierra Leone's most popular tourist attraction over the last three decades. But in a stand ...

A chilling 911 call recorded a woman's desperate cries of "he's eating her!" as her cherished pet chimpanzee violently mauled a friend. The animal, named Travis, had been a treasured addition to ...

Chimpanzees have a culture around food, just like humans do. The fuel that sustains a chimpanzee goes far beyond fruit; it is ...

The relentless appetite for bushmeat, the march of industry, and the looming shadow of climate change all have a hand in destroying the Congo. Weakening the rainforest, of course, will have global ...

In some regions, they are even hunted for bushmeat, which is meat derived from wild animals. The pressures of these factors have fragmented wild chimpanzee populations, making survival even more ...

She’s a cognitive biologist at the University of Vienna who studies chimpanzee drumming and observed over 350 drumming performances like this in five African countries. Chimpanzees in West ...

slicing through chimpanzee territory and exposing them to greater hunting pressure. Chimps are officially protected throughout their range, but poaching is rife, particularly around workers’ camps, ...

Mouse models were generated with genome-edited versions of HARE5, including human, chimpanzee, and mouse sequences. Human embryonic stem cells and chimpanzee induced pluripotent stem cells were ...

The observation of bonding behaviours in wild chimpanzees suggests that some aspects of human attachment have a deep evolutionary origin. Rolland et al. studied wild chimpanzees aged 0–10 years ...

Credit: Liran Samuni / Taï Chimpanzee Project For a long time, scientists have known that chimpanzees, like other primates, use distinct calls to communicate—alarm cries for predators ...

ST. LOUIS – The Saint Louis Zoo is mourning the loss of Kijana, a 32-year-old chimpanzee and beloved member of the zoo’s tight-knit chimp troop. Zoo officials say Kijana was humanely ...