A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans ...

New research on chimpanzees is forcing scientists to rethink where the line between human and animal minds really lies. In carefully designed experiments, chimps are not just grabbing at treats or ...

Zoo Miami recently celebrated milestone birthdays for two iconic chimpanzees who have called the zoo home since the early 1980s. Samantha arrived at Zoo Miami (then known as Miami Metrozoo) […] The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British ethologist and primatologist Jane Goodall, who paved the way for other women in primatology, has died. (Joel Saget / AFP ...

BLUE RIDGE, Ga. — A Georgia animal nonprofit nestled in the mountains is holding a special medical event for one of its exotic residents at the end of January. Project Chimps, located in Blue Ridge, ...

When people talk to each other, their conversations usually include many fast twists. Humans do not naturally talk in Shakespearean soliloquies, but by regularly interrupting and wildly gesticulating.

“I would give anything that I have, possession-wise, for that child. I would give my life for him,” Tonia Haddix says in a trailer for HBO’s “Chimp Crazy” docuseries. She’s talking about Tonka, the 32 ...

We have recently read a lot about the remarkable life's work of the great chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, who passed away on 1 October 2025. We learned that the Kenyan archaeologist and ...

Scientists studying chimpanzees in Budongo Forest, Uganda, have observed that these primates don’t just treat their own injuries, but care for others, too — information which could shed light on how ...

Chimpanzees and people already share much when it comes to our evolutionary history, and the latest research shows we have a similar appreciation for fairness as well. A study published in the ...

Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was ...