Chimpanzees get more selective about their friends as they get older, new research reveals. In a study spanning two decades in a Ugandan national park, US experts observed social interactions among 21 ...

The disease gets its name from its discovery in monkeys in 1958, but humans are usually thought to get monkeypox from African rodents.

Chimpanzees share the same instinct as humans to form close friendships based on trust, scientists have found. A study of chimps at a Kenyan sanctuary had shown a shared trait of "selectively trusting ...

Just like humans, as chimps get older they prefer to focus on a smaller social circle and with chimps they've spent the most time with developing meaningful and longer lasting friendships. The study, ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

Esther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra Leone's flagship national parks, where unprecedented deforestation and ...

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The animated baboon King Louis in Jungle Book wanted to be like a human, but the traffic isn’t all one way amongst the primates. Chimpanzees have something useful for us to covet – an astounding short ...

The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go — except up ...

HUMANS are less likely to cheat than chimps – but are more prone to promiscuity than beavers. They’re the findings of a major study into monogamy across the animal kingdom, which reveals the most and ...

Chimpanzees grieve just like humans, according to an incident at a Scottish wildlife parks. Chimps were filmed comforting a dying female in her final hours and appeared to check if she was breathing.