KIBALE NATIONAL PARK, Uganda (AP) — The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go — except up in the trees. Onesmas Ainebyona stalks the ...

Ainebyona and others involved in chimp conservation in this remote Ugandan rainforest say they aim for the kind of communion that at first irks chimps. Habituating chimps can take several years. The ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In the six years he's managed a sanctuary for abused and orphaned chimpanzees, South African conservationist Eugene Cussons is from time to time called on to comment when an ape ...

Chimpanzees living in a sanctuary in Africa have developed a “fashion trend” for dangling blades of grass or sticks from their ear holes and their behinds, a new study shows. In 2010, researchers ...

It was a hug worthy only of the woman who redefined man. For Jane Goodall, that 2014 embrace with a rescued chimp called Wounda at her institute's sanctuary in the Republic of Congo was yet another ...

Baby chimp Leo got a wonderful greeting from his new friends. Leo, a newly rescued baby chimpanzee, is getting the warmest welcome into his new sanctuary with hugs ...

Twenty-five years after the film's release, the chimps from "MVP" feel the lingering effects of a life in show business. Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Tim DiFrisco / Getty, Tom Pidgeon / Getty ...

Alcohol can make you woozy and nauseous when you drink too much, but why do humans love it? Wild chimpanzees may hold the answer. Chimps could be eating enough fermented fruit each day and consuming ...

A Hanover County man is making a last-ditch effort to keep chimpanzees caged in his backyard while avoiding criminal charges for housing potentially dangerous animals. Curtis W. Shepperson has a ...

Saturday, February 21, 2009--Jason Coats, 25, of DeSoto, glances back toward Chimparty, the facility from which Suzy, a chimp, escaped and was shot by Coats in 2001. During his 30 days in jail, he ...