Learn about a new study of captive chimpanzees, the first to identify the phenomenon of contagious urinations.

Ham the chimpanzee became the first chimpanzee in space. He successfully performed tasks in microgravity and proved that ...

The move to Chimp Haven is the culmination of years of legal challenges and pressure from animal rights groups. Organizations like the Humane Society of the United States and Animal Protection New ...

Chimps are amazingly adaptable. Unlike other nonhuman primates, they live in a variety of habitats and have developed different behaviors to thrive in them. A recent study now shows that chimps also ...

Chimpanzees, for example, show population-specific signatures of selection at genes important in immune response (MacFie et al. 2009, de Groot et al. 2010), suggesting that local adaptations in ...