No, chimpanzees and other great apes cannot breed with monkeys. Even though we often think of primates – the order of mammals that includes great apes such as chimps and ourselves, gibbons, monkeys ...

What can chimpanzees teach us about ourselves? A lot, says Craig Stanford, who's spent three decades studying the lives of our closest cousins. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

The study focused on Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo who died in March 2025 at the age of 44. Ape Initiative.

The Los Angeles Zoo welcomed the birth of a baby gorilla, the fifth and latest addition in a recent baby boom of adorable great apes that includes three chimpanzees and an orangutan. The infant was ...

Every morning while the great apes of the L.A. Zoo are sleeping, Tania Prebble goes around distributing their food, medicine and other essentials. She tosses carrots, celery and other fibrous treats ...

Kanzi, a remarkable bonobo, displayed symbolic pretend play by tracking imaginary juice in controlled experiments.

Apes include a rather broad range of simians (higher primates). Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people will colloquially call it an ape. Apes can be split into two families: Hylobatidae (or lesser ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Johns Hopkins study shows a bonobo can engage in pretend play, reshaping views of animal imagination. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY ...

The Los Angeles Zoo has welcomed its fifth great ape baby since the start of 2025, marking what park officials are officially calling a "baby boom." The infant was born on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, to ...

Every morning while the great apes of the L.A. Zoo are sleeping, Tania Prebble goes around distributing their food, medicine and other essentials. She tosses carrots, celery and other fibrous treats ...