All of the former research chimpanzees that had been living on an Air Force base in New Mexico have finally arrived at a ...

Chimp Haven recently welcomed retired New Mexico Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF) chimps. The final troop is among the ...

Ena Onishi, a doctoral program student with the Kyoto University graduate school, was in charge of observing the chimps in the latest study. Over a period of 604 hours, Onishi and her colleagues ...

The results were telling. Plants selected by chimpanzees to make tools were significantly more flexible — on average, 175% ...

Chimps have been found to use longer sticks to probe tree ant colonies, rocks as hammers to open fruit, and big sticks to wave around and throw like weapons to ward off intruders. In March ...

The researchers said their experiments on chimps showed audience effect predates the development of human societies based on reputation. The fact that they seem to be affected by human audiences ...

Scientists study cultural traditions in chimpanzees, revealing dialects used for mating and the impact of human influence on ...

Over six years, the researchers from Kyoto University and Akita Prefectural University analyzed the records of how the six chimps tackled three numerical tasks of different degrees of difficulty ...

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He is fond of eating sweets and chicken. Fed junk food by his captor -- a narco trafficker whose name has not been divulged -- Yoko has only four of his teeth left. Chimps, like humans, are meant to ...

Tonia Haddix told PETA and a judge that Tonka the Chimp had died. Years after the chimp was found alive, she pleaded guilty ...