A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, culture and the meaning of sharing a language ...

Maggie, a chimpanzee that had been at the San Francisco Zoo for over half a century, died last week after suffering from cancer. Maggie was believed to be just shy of 56 and came to the zoo in 1970, ...

On a night in 1997, Benjamin Dauda killed a gorilla for the first time. Shrouding his lanky frame in dark fog, he stalked a ...

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first great ape to travel to space. His mission was crucial in proving ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

The least studied of the apes, the bonobos, are known to regularly use sex to resolve disputes and repair social bonds. By comparison, the role of sex in chimpanzee society has been less well ...

Young female chimpanzees make their nests earlier and more often than young male chimps, demonstrating their independence ...