Lizzy at Project Chimps in North Georgia loves her stuffed Grinch toy. Lizzy, a chimpanzee at Project Chimps chimpanzee sanctuary in north Georgia, has formed a special bond with Grinch plushies. “She ...

Punch the monkey ran away with our hearts. Watching him cling to a stuffed orangutan at a Japanese zoo as he struggled to make friends became a collective moment as people around the world grew ...

In a world where animal welfare often takes a backseat, these heartwarming stories uncover a shared truth - toys are not just playthings, but vital companions that can ease loneliness, foster joy, and ...

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 ...

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

Chimpanzees can pick out crystals from a pile of ordinary rocks, handle them with visible care, and even hold them up to peer ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...

From pangolin scales to elephant tusks, from African gray parrots to manatees, the illicit trade in wildlife products and ...

Chimpanzees (often colloquially “chimps”) are African great apes in the genus Pan, which has two living species: the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and the bonobo (Pan paniscus). The common ...

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Kyoto University’s Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior has launched a memorial website for Ai, a chimpanzee known as a “genius” for her cognitive abilities, after she died at the age ...

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