While this might not seem like much, chimps eat so much fruit (around 10 percent of their body mass every day!), it ends up ...

Scientists estimate chimps’ alcohol consumption for the first time, and find they seem to prefer boozier fruit.

A new study has observed that chimpanzees regularly eat fermented fruit together, suggesting that alcohol consumption is more ...

Chimps' ability to metabolize fermented fruit could explain our own predilection for alcohol. Chimpanzees could be consuming ...

Drinking more than you intended may be something that many humans do, but now research is showing that a taste for alcohol is ...

It may seem unusual to think of chimpanzees as doctors, but they more closely resemble human healers than you may expect. Wild chimpanzees were once thought to be incapable of healing themselves. It ...

Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or ...

The L.A. Zoo is celebrating the arrival of two female chimpanzees born over the last several weeks. Their births mark the ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are native to the forests and savannas of central and western Africa. These creatures are our closest living relatives and share approximately 98.8% of our DNA. Similar ...

The LA Zoo announced on Thursday the arrival of two new baby chimpanzees — the first chimpanzees born at the zoo in 11 years.

World-renowned chimpanzee expert and primatologist Jane Goodall has died at 91, according to the Jane Goodall Institute.

In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does ...