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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 ...

"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." That's the longest string of words that Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who scientists raised as a human and taught sign ...

Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social ...

On the genetic level, we're not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in dna can have massive effects.

For decades, animals like chimpanzees have been treated as property under the law. Lawyer Steven Wise argues that this ...

“One of the main findings is that all chimpanzee kids are risky, and that infant and juvenile chimpanzees are even more risky ...

The human fascination with watching others—whether through reality TV, Instagram stories or overheard drama—is often dismissed as nosiness. But new research suggests this impulse may be a social ...

Videos of chimpanzees sharing alcoholic fruit suggest that this behavior could have led to feasting in humans, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

(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 ...

Different populations of chimpanzees showed varying behaviours - Copyright Handout/AFP Kathelijne Koops Different populations of chimpanzees showed varying behaviours ...

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 not need ...