By Charles Mpaka Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of ...

Hominidae is the primate family otherwise known as ‘the great apes’. Humans belong in this family group along with bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans. The great apes are the ...

Though we don't look much like them, we humans have a lot in common with bonobos and the three other great apes—the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan. Compared to the lesser primates ...

This is the epic story of three women who embarked on lifelong journeys to study and protect humanity’s closest living relatives: the great apes. That is, the other great apes. Humans are ...

“Because we stayed, we found out things about the great apes that would have been impossible to find out in other ways. So, I think it’s that accumulation of data, of staying, that helps serve ...

More information: Marie Padberg et al, Social attention increases object memory in adult but not younger great apes, Animal Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123081 Provided by Max ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs. A range of ...