Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

Lucy the Chimpanzee’s story is an animal rights nightmare. As told in the new documentary Lucy the Human Chimp, psychologist Maurice Temerlin and his wife, Jane, bought the fuzzy primate from a ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.

Onesmas Ainebyona tracks chimpanzees in a Ugandan rainforest. He has built trust with a chimp leader named Jean. It took ...

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Zane, a baby chimpanzee born in January, was adopted by another chimpanzee family after his mother, Chiana, became too sick to care for him shortly after Zane was born The Detroit Zoo recently pulled ...

Laughing is a major milestone that chimp babies typically reach between 12 to 16 weeks Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Mwana, the first chimpanzee born at Sedgwick County Zoo, has died at age 41. Born Oct. 28, 1984, Mwana ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Sedgwick County Zoo on Friday announced the death of one of its “beloved” chimpanzees, Mwana.

Residents of Hoima City have raised concern over acute water shortages caused by frequent chimpanzee incursions into their main water sources, a situation they say has exposed communities--especially ...

The Antwerp Zoo said the interactions between the woman and Chita the chimpanzee resulted in the chimp being ostracized by other primates.