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 ...

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

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 ...

Each evening, before turning in for the night, orangutans “make their beds,” building leafy nests of twigs and foliage to ...

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 ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

Bestowing human rights on great apes because of their similarity to us creates a new criteria—other animals can only be free of pain and suffering if researchers can prove they are human-like.

Freedom for Great Apes, a Central Oregon sanctuary for primates, has closed its doors and transferred its remaining animals to a larger facility in Texas. Four chimpanzees who lived in the Tumalo ...

Rather than chasing grammar in animals, a more grounded approach asks what cognitive difference might explain the gap ...

“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 ...

(CNN) — Researchers have found a new way in which great apes are similar to humans: they tease each other. A new study by an international team of scientists has documented “playful teasing ...

A new study indicated that chimpanzees may recognize other animals that they haven't seen in over 25 years. Researchers studied the way apes reacted to old friends.