Female chimpanzees that forge strong, grooming-rich friendships with other females dramatically boost their infants’ odds of making it past the perilous first year—no kin required. Three decades of ...

A chimpanzee broke out of her enclosure at the Indianapolis Zoo Friday morning, sparking a lockdown that trapped dozens of visitors — including 37 schoolchildren on a field trip. Jake Oakman, the ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Manhattan’s Sunset Zoo is mourning the loss of Susie, the oldest female Chimpanzee in human care. According to Sunset Zoo, Susie, the Western Chimpanzee, had been under close ...

Chimpanzees living in a sanctuary in Africa have developed a “fashion trend” for dangling blades of grass or sticks from their ear holes and their behinds, a new study shows. In 2010, researchers ...