Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Researchers think a complex series of events led to the breakdown in relations. Aaron Sandel/via REUTERS The world’s largest group of wild chimpanzees split ...

How likely is a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) to steal food from another chimp? It depends on whether they’re a friend or a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A famous chimpanzee community in Uganda split into two rival factions after years of social strain, giving scientists a rare look ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers have been observed carrying their deceased infants on their backs for years. Why does this ...

Fifty-four-year-old Pierre was completely blind before undergoing a cataract surgery that restored his sight. With this ...

What began as a woman raising a baby chimpanzee like her own child eventually turned into one of the most horrifying animal attacks ever recorded. This video tells the terrifying true story of Travis ...

Yet, despite this immense physical and psychological toll, chimpanzee and bonobo mothers frequently refuse to let go. Indeed, ...

An October 2025 social media post correctly reported that researchers documented an apparent effort by a troop of chimpanzees in the Congo Basin to domesticate more than 30 penguins. Rating: False ...

Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives. But how much of their communication resembles ours? A lot, it turns out. According to a study published Monday in the journal Current Biology, chimpanzees ...

Jane Goodall, the pioneering chimpanzee researcher who changed our understanding of what it means to be human, died while on tour in California at 91 years old. The Jane Goodall Institute posted a ...