He was born at Colchester in 1996 and on its website the zoo wrote it was "extremely sad" to hear of his passing on Frida ...

Tonia Haddix, who ran a Jefferson County primate facility, pleaded guilty in a St. Louis courtroom to two counts of perjury ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool ...

Bonobo groups are overseen by coalitions of dominant females and their sons, whereas the chimp hierarchy is usually structured around an alpha male and his male cronies. Bonobos are generally ...

Young female chimpanzees make their nests earlier and more often than young male chimps, demonstrating their independence right from the start, a new UdeM study finds. When do you make your bed?

A female chimpanzee eating termites using a tool alongside her infant at Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania Credit: Alejandra Pascual-Garrido ...

Colchester Zoo has announced that Tombe, a male chimpanzee, died on March 28 at the age of 28. Tombe was born at Colchester ...

A Colchester Zoo spokesperson said he sired one female chimp in 2009, so keepers would "take comfort knowing his legacy lives on here". Tombe was moved to Belfast with a male companion chimp ...