Visit the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro and see one of the largest chimpanzee troops in the U.S., plus expansive wildlife ...

Do animals grieve for their dead? Do they have an awareness of what death is? Researchers have been trying to find ...

Chimpanzees appear to be the biggest daredevils when they’re infants. Humans tend to take more chances and put themselves in ...

Chimpanzees are among the most intelligent primates, but that intelligence is paired with extreme physical strength and aggression. Documented attacks show that they can inflict severe and sometimes ...

In a playtime experiment, researchers found that our closest living relatives have the capacity for make-believe, too.

The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins and ...

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive explore chimpanzee aggression, attack patterns, and survival strategies in the wild.

From school to work to everyday life, you’ve likely been part of groups that work together smoothly and others that quickly ...

They sometimes touched their lips together, breathed into one another’s open mouths, or stood on two legs and hugged.

Bonobos exhibit the “common enemy effect,” meaning they bond more closely when they sense external threats. This response differs from that of their chimpanzee cousins. Studies involving eight bonobo ...