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 ...

It’s big news at the Los Angeles Zoo on Thursday, Sept. 25, where officials unveiled a tiny chimp girl born to 35-year-old female chimpanzee Yoshi and 26-year-old male Pu’iwa on Aug. 20, and another ...

A chimpanzee that escaped its enclosure was recaptured on November 14, the Indianapolis Zoo said. “At approximately 10 am, a female chimpanzee was seen outside her exhibit,” the zoo said in a Facebook ...

Tampa, Florida -- Five-month-old chimpanzee Keeva has learned a lot in her young life. She can laugh, reach out and grasp objects, stand upright while holding on, hang briefly from a tree branch or ...

A female chimpanzee was born at the Maryland Zoo on June 10. Now she’s waiting for a name. The infant will join Maryland Zoo’s three other juvenile chimps as chimpanzees learn from birth how to get ...

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 ...

AMES, Iowa – It was a discovery that changed what researchers knew about the hunting techniques of chimpanzees. In 2007, Jill Pruetz first reported savanna chimps at her research site in Fongoli, ...