Male dominance plays a big role in chimp society. Disputes are often resolved by threatening displays or by fighting. Female chimps lead a life much more solitary than that their bonobo cousins ...

rather than by forming temporary alliances and fighting, as male chimpanzees do. Bonobo communities don’t wage violent wars against other bonobo communities adjacent to their territory.

A California couple who made headlines in 2005 after they were left disfigured by two aggressive chimpanzees were later victimized by a Myanmar businessman, who preyed on their generous natures ...

One of its many surreal elements is the involvement of Hollywood star Alan Cumming, who becomes emotionally and financially committed to saving a middle-aged male chimp called Tonka after working ...

If you’re ever at a zoo, and you smile at a chimp, it might think you want to fight! Be careful ... “troops”) revolve around a dominant male, females, and their offspring.

The animals have not been used as test subjects since 2015, when the NIH retired chimpanzees from invasive research.

Yes, animals do practice revenge. Chimps do it, for example. Macaques do it, too, although not directly: if they cannot attack the offender because he is much stronger, they would hurt someone weaker ...

For instance, will a lone chimp ... Male orangutans live alone, while female orangutans may mother babies and raise them for nine years at a time. Per Orangutan Foundation International, males ...

Complicated births may not have arisen in humans as a trade-off between our need for big brains and pelvises suitable for upright walking, new research in chimps suggests.

How did a woman with a passion for animals but no formal background in research navigate the male-dominated worlds ... assigned Hugo to document chimp behaviors but also to film and photograph ...

KTVI reported Haddix saying she would fight the court order ... Save the Chimps CEO Ana Paula Tavares told the LA Times. While all male chimps at the sanctuary get vasectomies, Tavares told ...

Now, following the death of several chimps over the last year, those advocates say the federal government needs to do better. “We are fighting hard to get all these chimps to sanctuary,” said ...