A century ago, millions of chimpanzees roamed across Africa, sharing 98.6 percent of our DNA and even crafting their own ...

World Chimpanzee Day highlights why our closest living relatives are vital to science, forests, and understanding human ...

Bonobos and chimpanzees use friendly physical contact to manage social stress before meals. New research shows both species ...

Save the Chimps is an organization unlike any other. The world's largest privately funded chimpanzee sanctuary, it's home to over 200 rescued chimps on 150 acres (including five dedicated islands!) ...

A recent Instagram post by the Jane Goodall Institute (@janegoodallinst) points to evidence that male chimpanzees can ...

Trading wild chimpanzees, including their meat and body parts, is illegal. And yet, social media influencers and companies still reap profits from sharing "cute" images and videos of chimpanzees and ...

For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: adolescence. It's also unusual. Most other species pass from puberty to adulthood quickly, but humans linger ...

Chimpanzees — they’re just like us. Female chimps, it turns out, go through menopause, and go on to live long (and, one hopes, fulfilling) lives afterward. A new paper published today in Science ...

The females in a group of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are the first non-human primates to be documented experiencing menopause. The finding, published today in Science 1, deepens the mystery of ...

Female chimps living in an East African forest experience menopause and then survive years, even decades, after becoming biologically unable to reproduce. The apes are the first known examples of wild ...