Tonia Haddix is at the center of yearslong controversy over her ownership of Tonka, a chimpanzee who starred in Hollywood movies Emily Krauser is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at ...

In 1946, Mound Metalcraft began making colorful metal, and they were a hit. The company became Tonka Toys Incorporated in ...

The Emmy-winning “The Traitors” host has collaborated on an abstract painting with Tonka, a primate who stars of HBO’s “Chimp Crazy,” we’re told. Cumming and Tonka — who became close ...

The yellow Tonka Truck. Instantly recognizable by any child of decades past, that big metal beast would always make you popular around the sandbox. There were no blinking lights to dazzle ...

The woman at the center of HBO’s docuseries Chimp Crazy is still on the hook for nearly $240,000 after she faked the death of her pet chimpanzee Tonka, as PETA is urging a judge to consider ...

The new HBO docuseries follows Tonia Haddix's efforts at hiding Tonka the chimp from authorities after a judge ordered that the animal be turned over to an animal sanctuary. Viewers are going ...

During the proceedings, Haddix tearfully recalled how she’d found Tonka — one of seven apes whose care she’d overseen at a former chimp breeding facility in Missouri — dead the previous May.

Toyota has teamed up with iconic toy maker Tonka to create a new one-off Hilux pick-up truck, described as a “full-size dream toy for adults”. Called the Hilux Tonka Concept, it’s a ...

And Goode would ultimately play a key role in having the “humanzee” she considered her child, an ape named Tonka, removed from her home. Yet when Goode and Haddix finally came together for a ...

In 1946, Mound Metalcraft began making colorful metal, and they were a hit. The company became Tonka Toys Incorporated in 1955, and the rest is history. Today, many vintage Tonka toys are worth some ...