JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In the six years he's managed a sanctuary for abused and orphaned chimpanzees, South African conservationist Eugene Cussons is from time to time called on to comment when an ape ...

It was a hug worthy only of the woman who redefined man. For Jane Goodall, that 2014 embrace with a rescued chimp called Wounda at her institute's sanctuary in the Republic of Congo was yet another ...

Chimpanzees living in a sanctuary in Africa have developed a “fashion trend” for dangling blades of grass or sticks from their ear holes and their behinds, a new study shows. In 2010, researchers ...

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

The brain doesn't just recognize the human voice. A study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that certain areas of our auditory cortex respond specifically to the vocalizations of chimpanzees, ...

Baby chimp Leo got a wonderful greeting from his new friends. Leo, a newly rescued baby chimpanzee, is getting the warmest welcome into his new sanctuary with hugs ...

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Twenty-five years after the film's release, the chimps from "MVP" feel the lingering effects of a life in show business. Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Tim DiFrisco / Getty, Tom Pidgeon / Getty ...

A Hanover County man is making a last-ditch effort to keep chimpanzees caged in his backyard while avoiding criminal charges for housing potentially dangerous animals. Curtis W. Shepperson has a ...

Saturday, February 21, 2009--Jason Coats, 25, of DeSoto, glances back toward Chimparty, the facility from which Suzy, a chimp, escaped and was shot by Coats in 2001. During his 30 days in jail, he ...

Bala Amarasekaran has never felt like running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone was truly work, having come to his calling only after several unexpected twists of ...

British pop superstar Robbie Williams gets a raw, dazzling, long but exceedingly clever musical biopic in Better Man, which sees him portrayed as a CGI, motion-captured chimpanzee from boyhood through ...