In recent years, scientists have shown that chimpanzees favor certain peers by picking whom they prefer to groom and ...

Before Dian Fossey met her tragic fate, she came face to face with some of humankind’s closest nonhuman relatives.

In recent years, scientists have shown that chimpanzees favor certain peers by picking whom they prefer to groom and ...

Reward-based dog trainers place greater emphasis on education and science than those who use aversives, study shows.

Sri Lanka’s cultural capital of Kandy will step into the global scientific spotlight from Oct. 1 to 4, 2026, as it hosts the ...

Friendship, it turns out, may run deeper in chimpanzees than a simple preference for grooming partners. A new study from the University of California, Berkeley has found that chimpanzees steal less ...

Yet, despite this immense physical and psychological toll, chimpanzee and bonobo mothers frequently refuse to let go. Indeed, ...

Lindsay Oliver’s new book takes readers behind the doors of a primate research facility, offering valuable and surprising ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers display a remarkable yet haunting behavior in the animal kingdom: they carry their deceased ...

Do parrots pun, do jaguars jest? Maddy Chapman reveals what science has to say about the animal kingdom’s jokesters.

Wild African elephants living in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya appear to seek out specific plants when unwell. Local ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers have been observed carrying their deceased infants on their backs for years. Why does this ...