Onesmas Ainebyona tracks chimpanzees in a Ugandan rainforest. He has built trust with a chimp leader named Jean. It took Ainebyona four years to connect with Jean. The chimp now feels ...

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 ...

Sometimes, the joy of a holiday gift isn't in the gift itself but in the thrill of opening it. Nowhere is that exuberance on ...

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 ...

Re Anjana Ahuja’s column “Chimps are better at reasoning than we think” ( Opinion, November 12), the findings remind us how thin the line is between human and animal intelligence. The experiments ...

Scientists have documented what appear to be the first-ever lethal chimpanzee attacks against gorillas, according to a new study. Researchers at Osnabrück University and the Max Planck Institute for ...

These chimps were a barrel of laughs. Wild chimpanzees in West Africa were caught on video for the very first time sharing fermented African breadfruit that contained ethanol. Researchers from the ...

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, ...

Save the Chimps was founded by anthropologist and primatologist Carole Noon in 1997. Noon studied and worked at Goodall's ...

Many of the chimps found it more exciting to eat the snow than play in it! Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has ...