Dr. Craig Stanford is a leading primatologist whose research has transformed how we understand great apes and their world. As a professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at the University of ...

In an exciting first that highlights a mysterious aspect of human technological evolution, chimpanzees impressively engineer tools to fish for termites in Tanzania. For chimpanzees, termites might be ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The head of the Indianapolis Zoo was injured in an incident involving a chimpanzee last week, the zoo confirmed. President and CEO Dr. Rob Shumaker was feeding a chimpanzee through a ...

To see whether human presence affects chimpanzees’ hunting habits, researchers analyzed hunting behavior in two adjacent primate communities: the Sonso chimps, which have been observed since 1991, and ...

Chimpanzees are humans' closest living relatives, sharing more than 98% of our DNA. They are endangered, with fewer than ...

Male chimpanzees in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park use distinct “auditory gestures” to attract females. However, ...

Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, had never been outside of a cage or enclosure. She is one of the surviving chimps from the New York-based Laboratory for Experimental Medicine & Surgery in ...