Jane looking at a map.” When Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees was broadcast on CBS on December 22, 1965, an estimated 25 million North American viewers tuned in—a huge audience ...

Only seven chimpanzees are left in the Bossou forest, which is part of the Nimba Mountains Nature Reserve. Their habitat is only a short distance from subsistence farming communities of the ...

Peet detailed how keeping chimps in filthy living conditions away from their natural habitat can psychologically and physically damage them. And the Michigan-based animal rights expert sees a ...

one of Save the Chimps' 12 island habitats. Tonka now has a fresh lease on life with the assistance of the sanctuary. The Save the Chimps caregivers mention that he has adjusted nicely to his new ...

During that period, the nonprofit’s primatologists observed his behavior to determine which chimp family group would be best to slowly integrate him into. Of the dozen island habitats on the ...

Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky, some animals show remarkable cognitive abilities that may rival our own.

A tragic incident in Guinea saw a chimpanzee kill an infant after taking her from her mother, leading to an attack on a local research center by enraged residents. The event underscores how food ...

Chimps and other apes have been observed making more than 80 meaningful gestures. Three theories have tried to explain why. By Carl Zimmer In the 1960s, Jane Goodall started spending weeks at a ...

eventually uprooting her life to work in the chimp habitat. She especially bonds with Tonka, a former Hollywood ape who starred in multiple movies including 1997's "Buddy," with Alan Cumming (the ...

People living near a chimpanzee research center in Guinea attacked the facility on Friday after a woman said one of the animals had killed her infant, the center’s managers said. An angry crowd ...

I would give my life for him,” Tonia Haddix says in a trailer for HBO’s “Chimp Crazy” docuseries. She’s talking about Tonka, the 32-year-old chimpanzee whose remarkable life story ...