As a group of scientists from Panthera gathered around to watch trail camera footage from Gabon’s Batéké Plateau National Park, they were hoping to catch a few glimpses of lions and leopards, the main ...

Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, and this adds to the fascination of learning how they behave and interact with each other. We know that they, like humans, live in social groups and that ...

A new book edited by chimpanzee experts Drs. Lydia Hopper, Assistant Director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, and Stephen Ross, Director of the Center, called ...

Move over, fashion week — the hottest accessory of the season is a blade of grass shoved in your ear. Or, for the truly daring: your butt. Chimpanzees at a Zambian wildlife sanctuary are going viral — ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison University expected to find risky behavior to peak in adolescence in a study of ...

Every evening, as they move from place to place through the forest, chimpanzees stop to build a nest—most often in a tree—to sleep in. Using a selection of branches, leaves and twigs, they create ...

A study of chimpanzees in the mountains of Rwanda shows our nearest relatives adapt their nests to account for extremely ...

You might have heard a fascinating bit of news in recent weeks: Researchers at the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project in Uganda ...

Scientists Stunned as Chimpanzees Turn on Friends in Killing Spree By Will Dunham April 9 (Reuters) - For two decades, researchers observed members of the Ngogo chimpanzee group of Kibale ⁠National ...