Chimpanzees are capable of complex emotions. While this is common knowledge today, it was not in the 1960s. It was not until Jane Goodall began working in the field of animal research that this ...

Captive chimpanzees are on the threshold of legally becoming persons. This new status will be a game-changer for them. When their day in court arrives, chimpanzees will have legal rights to bodily ...

Drumming and singing at the same time is impressive, whether you’re Karen Carpenter, Ringo Starr or a chimpanzee. Japanese ...

Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall’s decades of research into the lives of wild chimpanzees radically changed our understanding of these intelligent apes, humans’ closest relatives. Photograph by ...

The long-running conflict in a formerly unified community, the second ever observed, adds to Jane Goodall’s studies about a ...

Her breakthrough studies studying chimpanzees in Tanzania not only found that the primates used tools, but had their own personalities and emotions. Long before Jane Goodall was crowned a U.N.

I have always had a fascination with chimpanzees. Thirty years ago when I owned an event-planning business in New York City, I hired a baby chimpanzee named Casey for a client’s birthday party. She ...