Bala Amarasekaran has never felt like running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone was truly work, having come to his calling only after several unexpected twists of ...

Uganda’s Ngogo chimpanzees are well known for their “chimpanzee warfare.” Primatologists have observed their brutal, lethal ...

The amount of information a small child can absorb and retain about wildlife is fearsomely impressive. At least once a day I fail pop quizzes on dinosaurs and/or cheetahs and raptors, administered by ...

Nyani, a 34-year-old chimpanzee, had a baby girl at the Detroit Zoo on July 4. The mother and baby are doing well, according to the zoo. Zoo visitors will not see Nyani and her daughter yet, but ...

Esther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra Leone's flagship national parks, where unprecedented deforestation and ...

After gaining new territory through conflict, a chimpanzee group saw higher birth rates and better infant survival due to ...

The L.A. Zoo announced Thursday the arrival of two new baby chimpanzees -- the first chimpanzees born at the zoo in 12 years. The first baby was born to 35-year-old female Yoshi and 26-year-old male ...

Baby chimpanzees are some of the cutest babies in the animal kingdom. Newborns are only around 4 pounds at birth, which is smaller than most human babies. Baby chimps live in family groups in the ...

REGENT, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - They can leap playful somersaults or maul a human to death. Meet the chimpanzee, man's closest relative. Today, Philip, a powerful male, plays tricks to earn a juicy ...