Ainebyona and others involved in chimp conservation in this remote Ugandan rainforest say they aim for the kind of communion that at first irks chimps. Habituating chimps can take several years. The ...

Musicality may have emerged in a common ancestor of chimps and humans, as both species share similarities in how they drum. Catherine Hobaiter at the University of St Andrews, UK, and her colleagues ...

As scientists have studied the chimpanzee, they’ve found more and more similarities between humans and their closest living relatives. But when it comes to the courts, chimps and humans couldn’t be ...

Lucy the Chimpanzee’s story is an animal rights nightmare. As told in the new documentary Lucy the Human Chimp, psychologist Maurice Temerlin and his wife, Jane, bought the fuzzy primate from a ...

SEATTLE, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- For years, the public has been told that human beings and chimpanzees are, in genetic terms, only "1 percent" different. But according to Discovery Institute ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.

Re Anjana Ahuja’s column “Chimps are better at reasoning than we think” ( Opinion, November 12), the findings remind us how thin the line is between human and animal intelligence. The experiments ...

Jane Goodall, an iconic figure in conservation whose work transformed human-animal relations, is perhaps best known for the trailblazing research she carried out with chimpanzees at Gombe Stream ...

One percent might not seem like a lot, but in human evolution, it’s all that genetically separates humans from chimpanzees. Scientists have long pondered how a 1% genetic difference could be so ...

(AP) - 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 ...

Human communication is a complex weave of words and gestures — a mix of vocal and visual signals. "People use vocal and visual communication in a very rich and combined way," says Joseph Mine, a ...