Captured in Senegal, one video appears to show a chimpanzee showing her daughter how to use a stick to extract ants from a nest.

Capuchins hunt and eat small vertebrates more often as plant foods wane. The behavior may help us learn more about humans’ early dietary evolution.

In the Peruvian Amazon, a man in his 70s faces leaving the monkeys he’s dedicated his life to protecting.

Travelers’ desire for intimate encounters with wildlife may threaten the animals they love

In 2015 Steve Smit badly injured his right eye while trying to round up rescued chickens in his garden in Westville, near Durban. A branch struck him and almost cost him his sight. Doctors told him to...

JAKARTA, Aug 7 — Animal trappers have captured a rogue monkey that attacked 18 people during a two-week rampage in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, forcing dozens of schools to shut...

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Goode admits he was “part of the problem” in the new HBO docuseries ‘Monsters of God,’ which takes his gonzo style of documentary to dangerous new levels: “People don’t realize how fucking crazy we ar...

The U.S. has again declined to protect endangered long-tailed macaques under the Endangered Species Act, allowing continued imports for biomedical research.

For millennia, animals have been treated as property or passive recipients of moral concern rather than as political beings with agency. Political philosophers Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, authors...

Punch, the orphaned monkey at a Japanese zoo that stole many people’s hearts by clinging to an orangutan plushie, is marking his first birthday with a flood of well-wishing messages from his fans arou...

Best Practice Guidelines for Responsible Images of Non-Human Primates A document detailing appropriate imagery (photos and videos) to be shared of non-human primates. The document describes in deta…

What Became of the Chimps Who Revolutionized Our Understanding of Animal Behavior?: It’s a harrowing tale of deadly winters in Berlin captivity

A global database reveals that a majority of great apes kept in zoos are overweight, likely as a result of the mismatch between their biology and their zoo diets. Corrective measures are necessary to....

KATHMANDU — At dawn in Birta Deurali village of Kavrepalanchok in central Nepal, maize fields aren’t quiet. Farmers stand guard, scanning the trees for movement, but they aren’t the only ones there. “...