When I talk about my time in the field, and how wonderful and fascinating chimpanzees are, one thing that often surprises people is that chimps eat meat. Listeners are truly shocked—"Wait what?" they ...

Florida has at least 40 more invasive species to worry about with some unexpected creatures topping the list, according to a recent "horizon-scanning study." Led by University of Florida scientists, ...

There have been no confirmed sightings of Tanzania’s critically endangered southern patas monkeys for more than a year, raising fears the species is edging ever closer to extinction. In 2021, there ...

A chimpanzee eating figs at Ngogo in Uganda's Kibale National Park in 2018. (Aleksey Maro/UC Berkeley) (CN) — By eating fermented fruit, wild chimpanzees may be regularly consuming the equivalent of ...

For many, monkeys are seen as mischievous, destructive creatures, notorious for wreaking havoc on crops and often becoming targets of hunting. Yet, among the Isukha, Idakho, and Tiriki sub-tribes of ...

In 2014, University of California, Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley wrote a book called The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol. His controversial “drunken monkey hypothesis” proposed that ...

A world-first experiment to measure chimpanzee heart rates via a digital camera could help curb cardiovascular disease in great apes in captivity and provide valuable insights into how their brain ...