Bubbles and Samantha are the oldest and third-oldest chimpanzees in North American captivity.

The National Institutes of Health, which owns the chimps at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico, has no plans to move the animals to sanctuary, despite a ruling from a federal judge. By ...

Wild chimps could be consuming the equivalent of up to two standard alcoholic drinks every day thanks to a diet rich in fermented fruit. Both male and female chimpanzees were consuming approximately ...

Jane Goodall, the world's most famous primatologist, accomplished an astounding feat in her 91 years of life: She fundamentally changed the world's view of what it means to be human. At the age of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These chimps were a barrel of laughs. Wild chimpanzees in West Africa were caught on video for the very first time sharing ...

Chimp Haven, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Louisiana, celebrated the season by serving its primate residents a fall staple! Kierstin Luckett at Chimp Haven People aren't the only species that crave a ...

— -- Unseen by anyone else on a hike, a snake crosses your path. What would you do? Chimps, our closest animal cousins, emit soft hoots to warn their unaware friends about the unseen danger. But ...

Since alcohol can sometimes reduce stress levels, the fruit may be encouraging social behavior in the chimps, according to a recent study Anna Bowland/Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project/University of Exeter ...

On the genetic level, we're not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in dna can have massive effects. Learn what makes us truly different from chimpanzees in this new episode of ...

Chimpanzees at Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary can do what was once considered an exclusively human trait: form expectations on the basis of evidence, but revise them on learning new facts.

Between 1998 and 2009, John Mitani witnessed 18 murders firsthand, and found circumstantial evidence for three more. But no police were ever called, for these killers were all chimpanzees, from the ...