The “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” might not be far off. A chimpanzee at a China zoo proved that we’re indeed quite alike after tossing a lost shoe back to its human owner from the ape’s enclosure, ...

There are few Simpsons bits as revered as Planet Of The Apes: The Musical. From chimpan-A to chimpanzee, it is a clinic of joke density, parody songwriting, and referential humor. It makes a monkey ...

Researchers describe a link between genetic relatedness and sophisticated tool use in primates in East and Central Africa, suggesting their culture is cumulative. By Sofia Quaglia It’s amazing what ...

Behind the scenes at a Chicago zoo, chimpanzees who spent years entertaining humans are learning to befriend their own kind. Behind the scenes at a Chicago zoo, chimpanzees who spent years ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

proves to be a stunning exception to the rule thanks to a magnetic star turn by Andy Serkis as a super-intelligent chimpanzee. In this prequel, "Caesar" (played by Roddy McDowell in the original 1968 ...

Researchers are going bananas. A new scientific paper reports that chimpanzees “are capable of” producing sounds that mimic words they hear from people. It follows recent research revealing that ...

It was a rainy morning at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, and at the chimpanzee exhibit, it was the children who were hooting and hollering. The apes themselves were placid, ignoring their rowdy ...