Save the Chimps is an organization unlike any other. The world’s largest privately funded chimpanzee sanctuary, it’s home to ...

A team of researchers spent more than 600 hours studying 20 captive chimpanzees to determine that chimps may experience socially contagious urination − a phenomenon in which urination becomes ...

At the time of the research, the Jane Goodall Institute Spain (JGIS) had been studying chimps in the reserve for more than 15 years. Camera trap footage and tools chimpanzees left during food ...

When Ham set off on his space flight in 1961, he paved the way for the first American to go to space months later.

“We are able to show the world these chimps for the very first time.” Camera traps at Ise captured the first video of a genetically unique Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee. Video courtesy of SWNDF ...

As part of Project Mercury, NASA prepared to send a chimpanzee, Ham, into space to test the effects of space on a living creature. What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? (02:31 ...

A trio of VFX Oscar nominees lead the feature competition nominations for the 23rd Visual Effects Society Awards, which will ...

Onishi, et al decided to study the phenomenon after noticing that many chimps in the sanctuary seemed to synchronize when they peed, and they wondered whether the phenomenon might be similar to ...

She is part of a team of researchers that recently discovered that the primates tend to tinkle when they see nearby chimps do the same. In a study published Monday in the journal Current Biology ...

She knew about well-studied “contagious” behaviors, such as yawning in humans, and wondered whether the chimps might be displaying “contagious urination.” In a new paper, published on ...