A blade of grass tucked behind an ear sparked a fashion craze that spread through an entire community, and the trendsetters ...

The Mötley Crüe drummer visited Save the Chimp’s 150-acre sanctuary and had a special meeting with a 9-year-old chimpanzee, ...

Is there anything more human than gathering in groups to share food and partake in a fermented beverage or two (or three, or….)? Researchers have caught wild chimpanzees on camera engaging in what ...

"They both genuinely look happy to see each other." ...

Every morning, before eating a single bite of food, sick chimpanzees perform a precise ritual with a specific type of leaf that seems to cure what ails them. What they are doing inside their own ...

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK, Uganda (AP) — The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go — except up in the trees. Onesmas Ainebyona stalks the ...

A group of former research chimpanzees in New Mexico that were previously deemed too frail or sickly to be moved to a federal sanctuary will be going to that retirement home after all. Officials with ...

As opposing armies headed along the dusty roads converging on Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Union Brigadier General John Buford recognized and seized the high ground. On the morning of July 1, his cavalry ...

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Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important role in primate social life. By Annie Roth Ena Onishi, a doctoral student ...

Female chimps living in an East African forest experience menopause and then survive years, even decades, after becoming biologically unable to reproduce. The apes are the first known examples of wild ...

Bumblebees and chimpanzees can learn skills from their peers so complicated that they could never have mastered them on their own, an ability previously thought to be unique to humans, two studies ...