Chimpanzees have a reputation for being aggressive, while bonobos are often seen as their peaceful counterparts. This ...

Chimpanzees love their alcohol. Among our closest primate relatives, they frequently feast on fermented fruit in the wild. So ...

Chimpanzees share more than 98% of human DNA, and decades of field research across Africa show their societies can be intensely violent. Long-term studies at sites like Gombe and Kibale document ...

Dong Dong the chimpanzee has a reputation at Shendiao Mountain Wildlife Park in China for being polite and intelligent Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Goodall, a pioneering primatologist who befriended chimpanzees, is dead at 91. She discovered that chimpanzees make and use ...

Punch the Monkey quickly grabbed the hearts of millions around the world. As more photos and videos of the monkey holding onto a stuffed orangutan plushie, struggling to make friends within his social ...

Chimpanzees are some of the smartest animals on the planet. However, chimpanzees can be very aggressive as well. As they share 98% of human DNA, it is not surprising that chimpanzee teeth are almost ...

The Kansas City Zoo and Aquarium is mourning the loss of two animals — a lion and chimpanzee —that recently died, the zoo said on social media. A 20-year-old male lion named Shakarri had been treated ...

Uganda is a land of breathtaking biodiversity, home to some of the most extraordinary primate experiences in the world. While mountain gorillas in Bwindi often steal the spotlight, chimpanzee trekking ...

A West African-born chimpanzee who was able to identify more than 100 Chinese characters as well as the English alphabet, died in Japan at the age of 49. Ai, widely known as a “genius” chimpanzee, ...