The National Institutes of Health, which owns the chimps at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico, has no plans to move the animals to sanctuary, despite a ruling from a federal judge. By ...

Bubbles and Samantha are the oldest and third-oldest chimpanzees in North American captivity.

Wild chimps could be consuming the equivalent of up to two standard alcoholic drinks every day thanks to a diet rich in fermented fruit. Both male and female chimpanzees were consuming approximately ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These chimps were a barrel of laughs. Wild chimpanzees in West Africa were caught on video for the very first time sharing ...

Nov. 8—The last surviving members of the Alamogordo chimpanzee colony will live out their final days in a Louisiana sanctuary rather than at the Holloman Air Force Base facility where they formerly ...

— -- Unseen by anyone else on a hike, a snake crosses your path. What would you do? Chimps, our closest animal cousins, emit soft hoots to warn their unaware friends about the unseen danger. But ...

Since alcohol can sometimes reduce stress levels, the fruit may be encouraging social behavior in the chimps, according to a recent study Anna Bowland/Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project/University of Exeter ...

Chimp Haven, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Louisiana, celebrated the season by serving its primate residents a fall staple! Kierstin Luckett at Chimp Haven People aren't the only species that crave a ...

Chimpanzees at Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary can do what was once considered an exclusively human trait: form expectations on the basis of evidence, but revise them on learning new facts.