Nov. 8—The last surviving members of the Alamogordo chimpanzee colony will live out their final days in a Louisiana sanctuary rather than at the Holloman Air Force Base facility where they formerly ...

On the genetic level, we're not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in dna can have massive effects. Learn what makes us truly different from chimpanzees in this new episode of ...

Project Chimps' Spring Brachiate program brings small groups of college students to a chimpanzee sanctuary in the Blue Ridge Mountains for a week of hands-on service.

The National Institutes of Health, which owns the chimps at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico, has no plans to move the animals to sanctuary, despite a ruling from a federal judge. By ...

Wild chimps could be consuming the equivalent of up to two standard alcoholic drinks every day thanks to a diet rich in fermented fruit. Both male and female chimpanzees were consuming approximately ...

— -- Unseen by anyone else on a hike, a snake crosses your path. What would you do? Chimps, our closest animal cousins, emit soft hoots to warn their unaware friends about the unseen danger. But ...

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 ...

Since alcohol can sometimes reduce stress levels, the fruit may be encouraging social behavior in the chimps, according to a recent study Anna Bowland/Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project/University of Exeter ...

Between 1998 and 2009, John Mitani witnessed 18 murders firsthand, and found circumstantial evidence for three more. But no police were ever called, for these killers were all chimpanzees, from the ...