Chimpanzees are capable of complex emotions. While this is common knowledge today, it was not in the 1960s. It was not until ...

Jane Goodall kisses Tess, a female chimpanzee, at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary near Nanyuki, north of Nairobi, on ...

She upended scientific norms of the time, giving chimpanzees names instead of numbers, observing their distinct personalities ...

Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal changed the way we look at primates, believing we have more in common than previously thought. His observations and many books redefined what it means to ...

Chimpanzees are more likely to engage in play or groom each other if they see others performing these social behaviors first, researchers report. Chimpanzees are more likely to engage in play or groom ...

On Oct. 1, Jane Goodall, a primatologist, died in her sleep at 91 years old. Courtesy of U.S. Department of State via Wikimedia Commons “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what ...

Anyone who has spent time with nonhuman animals knows they display different personalities. In my research with dogs and wild coyotes, individual differences in personalities, ranging from shy and ...

Frans de Waal, the prolific Dutch-American primatologist and author whose research revealed the depth and breadth of emotion and intelligence in nonhuman animals, died from stomach cancer on March 14 ...

Frans de Waal was just starting his career in primate research in the mid-1970s when he watched a male chimpanzee aggressively confront another at a zoo enclosure in the Netherlands. Later, the chimp ...

Wild animals are dangerous and should not be kept as pets. Consider the tragic story of C.J. and Buddy, two chimpanzees who lived in a home in Nevada. When discussing the need for regulations on the ...

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute said in post on ...