A new federally funded study of wild eastern chimpanzees in Gombe National Park reveals that female chimps who are more ...

A new study shows that the survival benefits hold for female chimps even in the absence of close family. The post Study finds baby chimps prosper when their moms have friends appeared first on Talker.

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 ...

A study showed that sex-based hierarchies in primates are more fluid than has been assumed, raising questions about the origins of inequalities between men and women.

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

In chimpanzee communities, strong social ties can be a matter of life and death not just for the adults who form them, but for their kids, too. A new study of wild eastern chimpanzees (Pan ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Peggy, John Ball Zoo’s 55-year-old female chimpanzee, has died, the zoo announced Wednesday. According to the zoo, team members had recently noticed a ...

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.