Instead, the study found the opposite. In larger groups, chimpanzees appeared more willing to restrain themselves, perhaps because outright fighting would be costly and disruptive when many ...

Washington-based lobbyists are launching a counteroffensive against a piece of proposed legislation known as the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act that would ban researchers that use ...

Since 1995, scientists have tracked a huge group of chimpanzees living in the forests of Uganda. The sustained research, featured in the 2023 documentary “Chimp Empire,” has led to profound insights ...

In the mid-1970s, more than a decade into her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, the late and legendary primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that horrified her. The ...