In Uganda, home to the primate capital of the world, tourism is small-scale but growing. Chimp and gorilla treks are the big draws.

After the drought ended, the forests returned, but the gorillas did not. Chimpanzees in this environment south of the river had the forest to themselves, and could exploit the fiber foods that had ...

Our closest relatives great apes, including orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas, love practical jokes. Researchers ...

Areas with high densities of great apes—including gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees—significantly overlap with the locations of African mines for these minerals, according to a new paper in ...

The Goualougo remains a primate wonderland, with an astounding density of both gorillas and chimps. Things that haven't been observed anywhere else in Africa happen here—and often. Morgan and ...

Trekking to see wild mountain gorillas is an experience that has been on our bucket list for over 10 years, and since Uganda ...

Other hominids include gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, and humans. A simple way to tell the difference between monkeys and ...

Humans have transmitted Covid-19 to "a panoply of species", but chimpanzees and gorillas, so biologically similar to humans, are particularly at risk. From our morning news briefing to a weekly ...

Trekking through Uganda’s lush Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, I unearthed profound connections between my relationships and the ...

The search is on for 43 missing monkeys in Yemassee after they escaped their enclosure at the Alpha Genisis research center, ...

We hear the chimpanzees long before we see them. Ear-piercing hoots and shrieks cut through the forest understory like a machete, as our group — eight tourists, two guides and three porters ...