Gorillas may have greater self-awareness than scientists previously thought. A new study finds that gorillas perform just as well as chimpanzees in tests that require awareness of their own bodies.

Other hominids include gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, and humans. A simple way to tell the difference between monkeys and ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs.

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

A zoo in China is investigating an incident in which a chimpanzee was captured on video smoking a discarded cigarette butt, ...

On a night in 1997, Benjamin Dauda killed a gorilla for the first time. Shrouding his lanky frame in dark fog, he stalked a ...

A zoo in China is investigating an incident in which a chimpanzee was captured on video smoking a discarded cigarette butt, ...

After the drought ended, the forests returned, but the gorillas did not. Chimpanzees in this environment south of the river had the forest to themselves, and could exploit the fiber foods that had ...

This is not the first time monkeys in zoos have been ... cigarettes into a small hole in the gorilla’s enclosure. In 2019, Sohu news reported that a chimpanzee was filmed smoking a cigarette ...