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Charla Nash was gruesomely attacked by a friend's chimp in 2009 and left with no face or hands. Now, thanks to a ...

Female chimpanzees that forge strong, grooming-rich friendships with other females dramatically boost their infants’ odds of making it past the perilous first year—no kin required. Three decades of ...

Female chimps are often the ones who leave their birth group. That means most do not live near their mothers or sisters.

Adult female cracking nuts using stone tools. She is being observed by an infant female (1 year old) and a young male (8 years). Credit; Tetsuro Matsuzawa ...

A female with a sociality score twice the community average had a 95% chance her infant would survive the first year. One who was halfway below average saw that chance drop to 75%.

A female chimpanzee will be removed from a central Queensland zoo over fears her aggressive behaviour may lead to the death of another chimp in the zoo's troop. Leakey, aged 29, ...

In both the Soviet Union and the United States, early space programs used animals as test pilots, with little regard for ...

Peggy, the 55-year-old chimpanzee at John Ball Zoo, died after a steep health decline, the zoo said in a Jan. 29 Facebook post. She defied life expectancy odds for most female chimpanzees.

Peggy, the 55-year-old chimpanzee at John Ball Zoo, died after a steep health decline, the zoo said in a Jan. 29 Facebook post. She defied life expectancy odds for most female chimpanzees.

A female chimpanzee was born at the Maryland Zoo on June 10. Now she’s waiting for a name. The infant will join Maryland Zoo’s three other juvenile chimps as chimpanzees learn from birth how ...