Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...

Their breakfast was still scattered around their enclosure for them to find. Ripley, one of the male chimpanzees, quickly gathered up some fruits and vegetables, sometimes using his feet almost like ...

She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson ...

The practice of substituting humans with primates reaches back into art history.

The monogamy rate in humans may be higher than you expected... but we do it in a strange way compared to other animals.

How monogamous are humans, really? It’s an age-old question subject to significant debate. Now a University of Cambridge ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.

Wildlife authorities in Uganda describe the process of making chimps appear comfortable around humans as “habituation,” a term that fails to account for the struggle between man and beast as they try ...

Chimpanzee calls activate key human brain voice regions, revealing ancient neural links that may reshape our understanding of language origins.

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in ...

In a Ugandan forest, rangers are trying to build trust with chimpanzee communities. They want the apes to tolerate humans so ...