An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries. Few apes ...

Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate ... In one famous episode, startled by a beaver, he combined “water” and “gorilla” to ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...