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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Chimpanzees can quickly identify the faces of other chimps, as well as those of human adults and babies. These new findings could shed light on human and chimp evolution, scientists say. Faces are key ...

On the genetic level, we're not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in dna can have massive effects.

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 ...

The fate of dozens of chimpanzees used in American biomedical experiments is up in the air after resources for their care and feeding were withdrawn this year. The New York Blood Center, in ...

It is one of the hard truths of aging: The older you get, the smaller your social circle becomes. Compared to teens, older adults' social groups tend to be tightly knit. As we age, we also lose our ...