Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...

Friendly associations between gorillas and chimpanzees in the wild can persist for decades, and may originate around food sharing and defense against predators. When you purchase through links on our ...

Chewed plants prove a simple, noninvasive way to test primates for viruses Infectious diseases introduced by humans pose one of the greatest threats to survival of great apes in the wild Simple ...

Two cheeky colobus monkeys ganged up on a teenage gorilla after he tried to join their fun. The black-and-white siblings were filmed perched together on their platform when nine-year-old gorilla Ajabu ...

While at VMworld 2012 last week, I couldn’t help noticing the large number of startup companies, row after row of them. So many small tech companies, most of which I had never heard of before, all ...

Researchers in Germany observed chimps killing gorillas in the wild for the first time in two separate encounters in the Loango National Park in Gabon, Africa. LCP, Tobias Deschner Chimpanzees and ...

Gorillas have their own indoor conservation centers. One is two stories and is visible to the public, and another is a private area where the zoo staff can interact with them and other monkey species.

With our clothing, high-rises, technology and more, we humans would seem to be animal kingdom outsiders, existing outside the norm. But despite all our advances, it turns out we age and die at the ...

Primatologist Mireya Mayor breaks down 10 monkey and ape attacks in movies, including "King Kong," based on realism. Mayor debunks common misconceptions about the behavior and appearance of the great ...