There’s no scientific basis for the view that lab dogs are inherently different from pets, or that they were somehow not ...

Chimpanzees in the wild are performing what looks like first aid on each other's wounds, and primatologists are only just beginning to formally catalogue the behavior. In the forests of Africa, ...

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon--a change that's based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is coming from within the scientific community as well as from activists, ...

April 22 (UPI) --A team of British researchers studying chimpanzees in West Africa said they have documented the primates eating and sharing alcoholic fruit. The University of Exeter team said cameras ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered “persons” with human rights, according to the state’s Court of Appeals. That means the owners of the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula will not need ...

Al and Kamaka, two old friends who are both in their 50s, are experiencing a whole new world. Part of what's novel: females. "Right off the bat, they were just enamored with the ladies in the group," ...

Suzie, the 28-year-old chimp that was shot to death near Festus in 2001. Suzie was owned by Connie Braun Casey and her husband, who once also owned Chimparty, a company that supplied chimps for ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...

Jake Brooker receives funding from Templeton World Charity Foundation (Diverse Intelligences Initiative). Zanna Clay receives funding from the Templeton World Charity Foundation (Diverse Intelligences ...