Compared with humans, chimp infants appear to act as daredevils earlier in life, according to a paper published today in ...

The youngest chimpanzees are the biggest risk-takers. Would humans show the same pattern if adults weren’t keeping such a ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

A young chimp swings through the jungle canopy at the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project at Kibale National Park in Uganda. Image credit: Kevin Lee/Ngogo ...

Between 2000 and 2023, more than 6,000 African primates were traded internationally in 50 countries, according to a newly ...

Nine chimpanzees once used as research animals now have a new lease on life. The group was moved to a new refuge in northern Georgia, hundreds of miles from their former home in a lab. Buttercup and ...

The National Institutes of Health said this week that it would put an end to research on chimpanzees, years after its European counterparts did the same. Ethical concerns, peer pressure on scientists, ...

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

Meet the Chimps takes viewers to the center of the social dynamics between the 300+ chimpanzees living at Chimp Haven Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Chimps owned by the National Institutes of Health should be moved from research facilities to retirement sanctuaries unless that relocation is "extremely likely" to shorten their lives, a report ...