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The two species mated 500,000 years ago, leaving a genetic mark to this day. This knowledge could help save them from extinction.
Realizing that others’ minds hold different thoughts, feelings and knowledge than your own was thought to be something only people could do. But evidence is accumulating that apes, too, have ‘theory of mind.’
A small but dedicated team is offering these abandoned apes a brighter future.
New research has questioned the nature of humans’ impressive capacity to imitate.
We tend instinctively to value human lives over non-human ones. But is there a point where the scales might tip the other way?
A number of monkey species eat rough leaves, soils and charcoal to treat or prevent diseases.
Why do we laugh? Evolutionarily speaking, it’s so we could survive – and similar rules apply today.
Archaeological remains, traditional tribes and conflict among chimpanzees can tell us much about the history of human warfare.
Groundbreaking video footage could change the way we look at chimpanzees.
A New York State Supreme Court has declined to recognise the personhood of two chimpanzees being used by Stony Brook University for research. But the case is far from over.
An Oxford professor spent more than 20 years watching chimpanzees cleverly adapt to their changing environment.
Chimps might be cute and cuddly but it’s their human drama that obsesses us.
Lots of animals consume alcohol but only humans do it to get drunk.
Apes and people are sharing habitat more than ever. As apes are pushed into novel situations, we can see how they adapt and maybe find clues into early human evolution.
Social animals also have societies to run and voters to please.
Just the other day I found myself in the waiting room of an automotive dealership. While my car was being serviced, I flipped through a product brochure. One ad for an oil change boasted that it would…
There is a side to the Ebola crisis that, perhaps understandably, has received little media attention: the threat it poses to our nearest cousins, the great apes of Africa. At this moment in time Ebola…
A US appeals court is currently hearing the case of a chimpanzee named Tommy and is to decide if he has the right to bodily integrity and liberty, just like a person. The case, brought by the Nonhuman…
“Make sure you play fairly,” often say parents to their kids. In fact, children do not need encouragement to be fair, it is a unique feature of human social life, which emerges in childhood. When given…
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