A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, culture and the meaning of sharing a language ...

Take the large cheek flanges of orangutans or the oversized noses of proboscis monkeys. But the ornaments don’t always match what’s under the hood, so to speak. A comparative study of more than 100 ...

A chimpanzee named Vanilla looked in awe, seeing a vast, open blue sky for the first time after living in captivity. The animal protection organization Save The Chimps posted a heartwarming video ...

Chimpanzees, for example, show population-specific signatures of selection at genes important in immune response (MacFie et al. 2009, de Groot et al. 2010), suggesting that local adaptations in ...