Chimpanzee Travis had lived with Sandra Herold for 14 years - but one day he snapped and attacked her friend Charla Nash in a ...

A new report published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution provides fresh clues on the origin of human ...

Plus, researchers could hear adult howler monkeys calling back and forth with the infants, who would sometimes try to crawl away. Camera footage showed one occasion when an adult howler came and tried ...

In a desperate bid to stop the savage beating, Sandra stabbed Travis in the back with a carving knife and battered him over ...

Capuchins are also known for developing odd social rituals across their range. Scientists studying mainland populations have ...

Hockings and her colleagues have previously found that many different kinds of animals consume ethanol-rich fruits, from tiny flies, wasps and bees, to monkeys, chimps and elephants. In 2015 ...

In Oregon, it is illegal to own primates. That includes chimps, monkeys, lemurs and more. Laws against private ownership of primates vary from state to state. The nonprofit took over the sanctuary ...

This marks the first instance of wild chimps sharing alcoholic food. The study supports the drunken monkey hypothesis regarding evolution. In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the ...

Look, we know not all of these are technically monkeys—some are gorillas, some are chimps, maybe even an orangutan or two—but ...

The exact reason chimps share the alcohol-laced breadfruit ... serve an evolutionary purpose — a theory known as the drunken monkey hypothesis. Using hidden cameras, planted in Guinea-Bissau ...