The apes also looked longer at the animals they'd had positive interactions with in the past, SWNS reported of the research. Researchers determined that apes have great memories and can remember ...

"I am an ape," Pedro Pozas, secretary-general of the Spanish Great Ape Project, declared recently. No, Pozas wasn't commenting on his appearance. Rather, he was boosting Spanish legislation that ...

With baby gorillas fetching up to $550,000, the illicit trade is booming as demand for African great apes rises in China, the Middle East, and Pakistan. A female bonobo feeds fruit to her baby at ...

Apes include a rather broad range of simians (higher primates) from the Old World. Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people ...

Great apes aren't so different from humans when it comes to certain social interactions, they too enjoy making funny faces, poking one another, randomly pulling hair and other forms of teasing ...

In February, while distracted from the needle with treats, nine of the San Diego Zoo’s great apes became the first known non-human primates to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.

Several great apes at the San Diego Zoo have been vaccinated against Covid-19 a few weeks after the zoo’s gorillas tested positive for the virus.

Great apes at San Diego Zoo get animal version of COVID-19 vaccine 00:37. Several orangutans and bonobos at the San Diego Zoo have received an experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed specifically ...

Eighty animals at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine created for veterinary use. According to a Monday news release from the zoo, veterinary technicians ...

As the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations speeds up across the country, zoos across the country are considering whether to give shots to apes and other animals that may be susceptible to the virus.

“We tend to think about great apes as quite different from ourselves, but we have really seen these animals as possessing cognitive mechanisms that are very similar to our own, including memory ...