The Oklahoma City Zoo on Wednesday issued a statement about the passing of 36-year-old chimpanzee Mwami, who unexpectedly passed away on Friday, February 7.

The colony is famous as the basis of groundbreaking research involving primate behavior, resulting in the book Chimpanzee Politics by Frans De Waal. Back in April 2016 she was coming to the end of ...

Now, a study published in the journal Nature has found that wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can remember the location of ...

But Jonathan Marks is not very interested in what it means to be 98% chimpanzee. Indeed, he is confident that the interest shown by others is all a mistake, one with severe political and moral ...

Chimpanzee politics is a web of shifting alliances, and to get to the top you need to be prepared to turn on your friends and embrace your enemies. Most alliances are of convenience, not of ...

"Urination, a seemingly simple physiological act, can also spread socially within a group." A recent study in the journal Current Biology led by scientists at Kyoto University's Wildlife Research ...

The same is true of Beryl, a chimpanzee living in Kibale National Park, in Uganda, and her young daughter, Lindsay. When Lindsay wants to climb on her mother’s back and travel, she puts one hand ...

Chilling photos show a tiny little baby being raised alongside a chimp in a warped experiment. One haunting image even shows the tot in floods of tears after being spun about in his chair again ...

Urinating is a contagious behaviour among chimpanzees, a study has found. Individual chimps that see another chimp urinating will respond by also emptying their bladder, especially if the first to ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda may have changed their hunting strategy in response to being watched by scientists. While studying the animals, researchers documented very different hunting habits of two ...

Zoo authorities in the Indian capital, Delhi, have held a party to celebrate the 57th birthday of Rita the chimpanzee, its oldest resident. The birthday girl received presents and a cake was cut ...

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum ... new research shows that chimpanzees, who share 98 percent of their DNA with humans, intentionally pee in groups.