Chimpanzee Studies

Why ants may be able to teach us more about modern humans than chimpanzees can: With a maximum size of about 100, no chimpanzee group has to deal with issues of public health, infrastructure, distribution of goods and services, market...  

"Chimpanzees that have been tortured both physically and mentally for years in hideous research experiments at long last find the first peace, contentment and love they have ever known at Save the Chimps," said Barker.  

The price is right for a Fort Pierce chimpanzee sanctuary after a $250,000 donation from Bob Barker. Save the Chimps announced the donation by the former host of "The Price is Right" on Tuesday. "Chimpanzees that have been tortured both physically and ...  

Scientist Jane Goodall landed in Tanzania?s Gombe Stream National Park in 1960 and spent years living among and observing the park?s chimpanzees. The research program she founded upon arriving is still in operation, making it the longest running ...  

Chimpanzees and orangutans really do have personalities "like people," British researchers say. The new findings address a long-standing debate about whether great apes possess human-like personalities or if such perceived behavior is an anthropomorphic projection of human observers, they said. Using a statistical method to remove any biases in human observers of apes' behavior, researchers at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland said...  

WASHINGTON -- When six chimpanzees escaped from a private Mechanicsville, Va., zoo in July 2010, the local animal control chief, Kevin M. Kilgore, assured a local newspaper the "animals are in good shape and they’re well taken care of."The chief also sung the praises of the zoo itself to The Mechanicsville Local:Referring to Windy Oaks Animal Farm, Kilgore said, "They have a lot of really interesting and neat animals."Read More...  

London, May 24 (IANS) Chimpanzees and orangutans have personalities “like people”, researchers have claimed. Experts say it could finally end a decades-old debate over whether we simply project human-like personalities onto great apes, Daily Mail reported Thursday. It is already known that common chimpanzees share 98 percent of human genes and are mankind’s closest living [...]  

For most of its slim 78 minute runtime, Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield‘s Chimpanzee focuses on the daily minutiae of a large group of chimpanzees living in the Ivory Coast’s Tai Forest – their eating habits, sleeping patterns, and how they interact on a social level. It’s not particularly exciting, but it is interesting and it does serve an important purpose when the film finally gets to the meat of its story – it serves to lull its...  

Visitors to the Los Angeles Zoo can see several new babies on display this spring Chimpanzee baby: Born March 6. The baby chimpanzee is the first born at the zoo since 1999. Her mother is Gracie. The Los Angeles Zoo is home to 15 chimpanzees, one of the largest troops in the nation.read more  

Two members of the Georgia Animal Rights and Protection were arrested this afternoon during a rally at Emory University. The group gathered at the science center to demand the Yerkes National Primate Research Center release Wenka, a 58-year-old chimpanzee who's reportedly lived at the center for half a century and is still used for research and testing, to an animal sanctuary.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the...  

Chimpanzees and orangutans have personalities ‘like people’, researchers have claimed ... ‘Chimpanzees have the same social problems that we do, they want to make friends and find mates and sort of gain position within their society,’ said Mark ...  

BURBANK, Calif., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Swinging into theaters April 20 with a $10.6 million opening-weekend performance, "Chimpanzee" proved so popular among audiences that Disneynature is extending the "See 'Chimpanzee,' Save Chimpanzees" conservation initiative for a second...  

Image: Jill Moyse (left) and Maureen Leahy (right) monitoring Keo, a 54-year-old chimpanzee in the Lincoln Park Zoo. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) Dr. Kathryn Gamble, the chief veterinarian at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, has been studying heart disease in captive chimpanzees. Over one third of deaths in these animals are related to heart disease despite healthy diets, exercise and regular testing. Her team has implanted heart...  

"[Chimpanzees] have the same social problems that we do, they want to make friends and find mates and sort of gain position within their society," the BBC quoted team member Mark Adams, a researcher who conducted the research while studying for ...  

Perhaps as only Homo sapiens can be, I am of two minds about "Chimpanzee." Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield ("Earth"), this Earth Day offering from Disneynature featuring a baby chimp named Oscar is an intimate and visually impressive saga.  

Kate Wong reports on chimpanzee and bonobo presentations at the AAPA meetings: "Why chimpanzees kill". As for the bonobos, [Michael Wilson's] study bolsters the claim that they are less aggressive than chimpanzees: there were no clear-cut homicides in any of the bonobo communities. Another presentation given at the meeting provided a possible clue to the apparent absence of male aggression among these apes: Victoria Wobber of Harvard...  

Adam Auton and colleagues [1] sequenced a panel of chimpanzees to examine recombination in that species, thereby constructing a chimp-specific genetic map. This paper doesn't give any new information about chimpanzee population history or structure, but does have some conclusions about the evolution of recombination in the human and chimpanzee lineages: Our results also reveal the different processes that operate at fine and broad scales. At...  

The directors and producers of the new documentary "Chimpanzee" share with NY1's Parenting correspondent Shelley Goldberg how they felt during the filming process that the chimpanzees actually began to feel more like friends. Dr. Jane Goodall, who spent much of her life working with chimpanzees, was honored to help bring attention to this very touching film.  

Chimpanzees or people? Can they survive together? They are a sort of close relative. Expecting wild animals such as chimpanzees to thrive in increasingly fragmented habitats alongside a growing human population may be unrealistic, say scientists. But exactly how people should live together long-term in shared landscapes remains largely unresolved. Chimpanzees are members of the Hominidae family, along with gorillas, humans, and...  

Senior citizens are common in Florida but one 74-year-old is in a class of her own: "Little Mama" is believed to be the oldest chimpanzee in captivity. YouTube Video:  No YouTube read more  

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DisZineDisneynature's 'See Chimpanzee, Save Chimpanzees' Conservation Program Makes ...DisZineBy Denise Shively Disneynature in collaboration with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) have announced the impact of Disneynature's “See 'Chimpanzee', Save Chimpanzees” conservation program. During the first two weeks after the film debuted, ...Disneynature and Jane Goodall Institute Team Up for Chimpanzee ProgramHollywood Reporterall 2 news articles »  

For PBS NewsHour, Miles O'Brien reports on whether there are ever instances in which the scientific value of research should offset the moral cost of working with chimpanzees. The US government has moved to limit some of the research it funds with chimps in recent months. Medical experiments on chimps can be invasive: one animal [...]  

Captive chimpanzees do clever things, but how deep is their planning? Michael Balter describes a research study following how one chimpanzee harasses zoo visitors: "Stone-throwing chimp plans ahead". The next day, Santino again threatened visitors with stones, but the group again backed away to avoid being hit. Santino was then observed pulling a heap of hay from inside his enclosure and placing it on the island close to where the visitors...  

During one of our chimpanzee circle time discussions, we learned that another way chimpanzees are like us is that they have emotions like us. I love "accidentally" teaching the kids new vocabulary words in my lesson plans! Emotions? What is that word?!...(read more)  

I absolutely LOVED this project!! So did the kiddos :) What a great way to see how closely related to chimpanzees we really are. We started with these 2 prints. An adult chimpanzee hand and foot print. I'm sure you can guess what's next!! Read More.....(read more)  

Chimpanzees, it turns out, have a similar kind of cultural variation: Neighboring groups of the animals have unique nut-cracking styles, a new study in the journal Current Biology reports. Researchers noted that one group of wild chimps in Tai ...  

Our very sweet and generous TK class collected jars of peanut butter, bags of rice, boxes of pasta, and even cleaned out their closets for stuffed animals no longer "in use" :) Why?! To help Save the Chimps! While studying Chimpanzees, (yes, I mean ME!!...(read more)  

Shortly after her birth, Moesha was taken away from her mother and sent to a laboratory for a life of medical testing. Like the 265 other chimpanzees at the Coulston Foundation's facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Moesha would be poked and prodded in the name of medical research. Moesha was one of the lucky ones: She survived. Others were not so fortunate. Three chimpanzees housed at the Coulston Foundation were literally cooked to death...  

The first study into rarely documented ground-nest building by wild chimpanzees offers new clues about the ancient transition of early hominins from sleeping in trees to sleeping on the ground. While most apes build nests in trees, this study focused on a group of wild West African chimpanzees that often shows ground-nesting behavior.  

The first study into rarely documented ground-nest building by wild chimpanzees offers new clues about the ancient transition of early hominins from sleeping in trees to sleeping on the ground. While most apes build nests in trees, this study, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, focused on a group of wild West African chimpanzees that often shows ground-nesting behavior.  

Windy Oaks owner Curtis Shepperson acknowledged Monday that he received the notice and said he's done everything he's supposed to do. He declined to elaborate. According to a report by Hanover County Animal Control, the chimpanzees escaped when a painter ...  

Disney's 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees — their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts for smaller monkeys, whom they sometimes eat.  

In humans and chimpanzees knowledge is transmitted within a group by means of a majority principle. Chimpanzees are more likely to copy an action performed by a large number of individuals than an action that was performed more frequently. Two-year old children consider both the number of individuals and the frequency of the action demonstrated. For orangutans, however, none of the factors play a role.  

This weekend Disneynature's Tim Allen-narrated doc Chimpanzee opens nationwide. The movie follows a 3 year old Chimp named Oscar who is unexpectedly orphaned and then adopted by the group's alpha male. Inevitably, cute and cuddly Oscar is going to incite cries of, "Mommy, can go see the Chimpanzees?", and the answer is yes (sort of).  

While millions of people across the globe flocked to the theaters to watch “SEE ‘CHIMPANZEE,’SAVING CHIMPANZEES”, featuring Oscar, the cute loveable chimp; they were also helping Disneynature make a profound impact on the Jane Goodall Institute’s Conservation Program. For every moviegoer who saw Oscar the chimpanzee on the big screen during the film’s record-setting run, (April 20-May 3, 2012), Disneynature … Keep Reading  

Disney’s 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees -- their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts for smaller monkeys, whom they sometimes eat.  

Both cortical folding and structural connection patterns are more elaborated during the evolution of primate neocortex. For instance, cortical gyral shapes and structural connection patterns in humans are more complex and variable than those in chimpanzees and macaques. However, the intrinsic relationship between gyral folding and structural connection and their coevolution patterns across primates remain unclear. Here, our qualitative and...  

Boing BoingShould Testing on Chimpanzees Continue?PBS NewsHour (blog)Because they share 99 percent of humans' genetic makeup, chimpanzees have long been used to test medicines being researched for human use. Today, all countries except the US and Gabon have outlawed testing on chimps, and American researchers and animal ...'Oops Babies' Sired by Twice-Vasectomized ChimpPBSall 5 news articles »  

msnbc.comChimpanzees have nutcracker neighborhoodsio9It appears that neighboring chimpanzees do act differently in one key way: how they crack open nuts. Three groups of chimpanzees living in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, all of are adjacent and come in contact with one another.Like humans, chimps are found to have some culture, toomsnbc.comall 4 news articles »  

Missed marketing opportunity of the young century. Disney comes out with a documentary about a cute, little chimpanzee named Oscar. Children love chimpanzees and also love bananas. Parents hate the over-priced and expensive concessions sold at movie theaters. Why didn't Dole or Chiquita promote BANANAS at the theaters showing "Chimpanzee'?  

by Michael Markarian — Our thanks to Michael Markarian for permission to republish this post, which originally appeared on his blog Animals and Politics on April 24, 2012. Just following Earth Day and the release of the Disney Nature documentary Chimpanzee, which features chimpanzees in the wild where they belong, Congress considers the fate of [...]  

Government, public speaking and chimpanzeesSavannah Morning NewsWant to see a feel good documentary/movie, go see “Chimpanzees,” a great documentary about life for a chimp in the jungle, narrated by Tim “the Tool Man” Allen. I went because my wife wanted to see it, I usually go to Alien vs.  

2013 PARADE: Greeting the crowd with a hooting "hello" call more familiar to the chimpanzees of Gombe than Tournament of Roses top-dogs, Dame Jane Goodall was introduced Wednesday as grand marshal of the 2013 Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game.  

Washington, May 11 (ANI): Santino, the chimpanzee, achieved international fame in 2009 for his habit of gathering stones and manufacturing concrete projectiles to throw at visitors from the safety of his enclosure at Furuvik Zoo north of Stockholm.  

What makes a chimpanzee’s heart skip a beat? That’s what Dr. Kathryn Gamble is asking the chimps themselves to help her find out. Chimpanzees at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, where Gamble is chief veterinarian, eat a healthy diet and get ...  

Disneynature’s “Chimpanzee” had a big box-office opening, earning 10.6 million dollars. The film was so popular with audiences that Disneynature is extending the “See ‘Chimpanzee,’ Save Chimpanzees” donation program until Read More  

The studio that Mickey Mouse built is now in the business of aiding chimpanzees. Disneynature, the Disney division that makes wildlife films, is teaming with the Jane Goodall Institute on the “See Chimpanzee Save Chimpanzees” program. STORY: Natalie ...  

CHICAGO (AP) - More than a third of deaths in adult captive chimpanzees are caused by complications of heart disease, and veterinarians don't know why. That's why Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo has launched a project in which chimps are helping in the fight ...  

Reporting from Burbank, California April 25, 2012, Disney has announced that due to great opening weekend for “Chimpanzee,” that they will extend their benefit to the Jane Goodall Institute. Disneynature’s newest True Life Adventure, “Chimpanzee ...  

What triggers empathy and altruism? Duke evolutionary biologist Brian Hare and research scientist Vanessa Woods believe the answer may be found in the great ape known as the bonobo. Often mistaken for chimpanzees, bonobos are slightly smaller ...  

FORT PIERCE — A 25-year-old female chimpanzee at the Save-the-Chimps sanctuary in Fort Pierce may be able to run again, thanks to a revolutionary stem cell treatment performed on Wednesday. Angie, one of the 271 chimpanzees that live at the ...  

Noted primatologists Netzin and Dieter Steklis will discuss "Gorilla Fathers: Do they help us understand the importance of the human family?" Wednesday at a free lecture at Academy Village, 13715 E. Langtry Lane. Their talk is sponsored by the Arizona ...  

FORT PIERCE — A 25-year-old female chimpanzee at the Save-the-Chimps sanctuary in Fort Pierce may be able to run again, thanks to a revolutionary stem cell treatment performed on Wednesday. Angie, one of the 271 chimpanzees that live at the ...  

Depending on where a meal is served, a person might tuck in with a fork and knife, with chopsticks or with bare hands. Chimpanzees, it turns out, have a similar kind of cultural variation: Neighboring groups of the animals have unique nut ...  

Disneynature’s Newest True Life Adventure Celebrates its $10.6 Million Opening-Weekend Box Office by Extending Benefit to Jane Goodall Institute BURBANK, Calif. (April 25, 2012) – Swinging into theaters April 20 with a $10.6 million opening- ...  

The good folks at the Chimp Sanctuary Northwest in Washington state recently installed a hidden camera to monitor the seven rescued chimpanzees under their care. It didn't take long before Foxie, a precocious 36-year-old female, caught wind of the new ...  

TheChronicleHerald.caFollowing The Lives Of Chimpanzees On ScreenNPRCo-producers and directors Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill, who had previously worked together on the documentary film Earth, approached Disney with a 70-page script about a group of chimpanzees living in Western Africa."Chimpanzee" presents sanitized jungleChicago TribuneUniversity of Michigan's John Mitani played a key off-screen role in ...AnnArbor.com'Chimpanzee...  

Zee NewsChimpanzees use innovative ways to fool humansZee NewsOver the course of the season, the researchers observed that the use of concealments became the chimpanzees preferred strategy. Moreover, Santino combined two deception strategies consistently: hiding projectiles and inhibiting the displays of ...Science news: Chimps are mean, sneaky bastardsITworld.comSantino the stone-throwing chimp plans to deceive humansWired.co.ukChimpanzee...  

Filmmaker Alastair Fothergill spent three years in Western Africa, following a group of wild chimps. His Disney nature film Chimpanzee showcases a baby chimp named Oscar and the relationships he develops within his clan.  

Chimpanzee *** – Rated G; narrated by Tim Allen; directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield; opening Friday at ShowPlace 8 in Carbondale and AMC Centre 8 in Marion. Disney’s 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically ...  

Quick ReadBob Barker opening new area for 5 HIV-infected chimps at national sanctuary in Louisiana (AP) -- Retired game-show host and animal rights advocate Bob Barker is opening a new area for five HIV-infected chimpanzees at a sanctuary in ...  

People don't always do as their neighbors do, and the same is true of neighboring chimpanzees. That's according to a report featuring observations of wild chimps as they used hammers to crack nuts.  

Michael Wilson of the University of Minnesota and his colleagues amassed data on chimps in 17 communities at 10 sites in west, central and east Africa whose members had long been observed by researchers. For each community the team obtained data ...  

Disney's Chimpanzee is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees — their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts…Click to Continue »  

Somehow, the females are able to adapt to their new culture's tool-use preferences; the researchers are currently studying these communities further to see how these females are able change the way they use tools. "In many ways, chimpanzees are ...  

Dr. Kathryn Gamble is the zoo's chief veterinarian ... so we have reams and reams of behavioral data," said Steve Ross of the zoo's Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes. "We know how they act with each other.  

Although unable to attend last week’s Senate hearing on the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act, Bill Maher and Jenna Dewan-Tatum wrote letters to Congress to voice support for a bill that will trim millions of taxpayer’s dollars, help nearly 1000 chimpanzees retire to sanctuaries, and establish ethical standards for medical research in the US. “It’s time to get real about ending invasive experiments on chimpanzees,” wrote Bill Maher...  

Jane Goodall, the pioneering champion of chimpanzees of Africa has literally changed the world. Her passion for them started in the sixties when she gave up her life in England headed off to Africa and began her lifelong study of chimpanzees. Goodall lived ...  

What makes us special? People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well. Other people say, "What about religious behavior? Do chimps show any signs of that?  

More than a dozen sanctuaries across Africa shelter chimpanzees rescued from poaching, war, and other traumatic situations. Major efforts are being made to protect the endangered species. It's a typical day at Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Kenya’s ...  

For more on the chimpanzees journey from laboratory to sanctuary, watch "Chimp Rescue" on CNN Presents ... the chimps until the organization could create a more permanent outdoor sanctuary in Florida. But first, Moesha and the others -- isolated ...  

A chimpanzee at the Tulsa Zoo died on Saturday after a fight with other chimpanzees. Zoo officials say an altercation broke out Saturday between the 20-year-old Alvin and the other chimpanzees in the group. The male chimp was separated from the group and ...  

By David Lambert - In the spirit of Get Smart, ABC s action-adventure/comedy spy series (1970-72) aired Saturday mornings, starring a cast of chimpanzees whose performances were dubbed with human voices,... (more)  

Disneynature and the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) today announced the impact of the latest Disneynature conservation program "See 'Chimpanzee,' Save Chimpanzees." For every moviegoer who saw Oscar the chimpanzee on the big screen during the film ...  

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Retired game-show host and animal rights advocate Bob Barker is opening a new area for five HIV-infected chimpanzees at a sanctuary in northwestern Louisiana. The former host of "The Price Is Right" donated $380,000 to ...  

Parents of young children will be pleased to know that no chimpanzees get abused by humans and no humans get abused by chimpanzees in Disneynature’s “Chimpanzee.” However, the film continues the Disney “tradition” of killing a parent. From ...  

James Franco, Alec Baldwin, Bill Maher and other celebrities are encouraging Congress to pass legislation that would release more than 500 federally owned chimpanzees to wildlife sanctuaries. The celebrities are rallying behind bill in the Senate that ...  

Ben Cardin, D-Md. Chimpanzees are our closest relatives, but they are not great models for research because their genes are expressed differently than those in humans, Wasserman said. "Although more than 85 HIV vaccines were developed and ...  

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - The Tulsa Zoo says 1 of its chimpanzees has died after it got into a fight with other chimpanzees. The zoo says 20-year-old Alvin got into an altercation Saturday with other males over a female chimpanzee that had recently become fertile.  

#readerroundup Would you contribute to a nonprofit aimed at making chimpanzees feel more confident about their furry bodies? Better get in touch with amycee, who's spearheading this noble cause. All that's missing now is a clever acronym: More »  

The Tulsa Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its chimpanzees, a press release said Wednesday. According to zoo staff, an altercation broke out Saturday between the 20-year-old Alvin and the other chimpanzees in the group. The male chimp was separated from ...  

"Right now he's suffering with severe arthritis in his hips." Although more than twice Cooper's age, Little Mama's last physical showed her in good health with clean lungs and a strong heart. Wolf believes that excellent care in the pet industry ...  

Ben Cardin, D-Md. Chimpanzees are our closest relatives, but they are not great models for research because their genes are expressed differently than those in humans, Wasserman said. "Although more than 85 HIV vaccines were developed and ...  

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Retired game show host and animal rights advocate Bob Barker is opening a new area for five HIV-infected chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Louisiana. The former host of "The Price Is Right" donated $380,000 to create space at the Chimp Haven.  

Daily MailChimps don't care about 'Keeping up with the Joneses' - they choose their own ...Daily MailAt least, chimpanzees have no qualms about how the neighbours view them, according to scientists at the Max Planck Institute. The scientists studied chimp communities in the Ivory Coast, Africa, and observed their use of tools as the different groups ...Chimps have culture, a new study suggestsGlobalPostCulture results when chimps get...  

It’s become a tradition for Disney to release a nature-related ... He is the smallest baby in his community, which includes several adult males, females and other young chimpanzees. He is dependent on his mother Isha for food, safety and ...  

Bunny, a 22-year-old chimpanzee at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, gave birth to a stillborn baby Thursday, the Zoo announced today. The Zoo's chimpanzees were given "mourning time" with the stillborn baby, according to Zoo officials. "This was ...  

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Chimpanzees eat monkeys. That's one of the big takeaways from "Chimpanzee," the latest in the DisneyNature series of documentaries. We don't get to see this happen in a way that would jeopardize the movie's G rating, of course ...  

Chimpanzees eat monkeys. That's one of the big take-aways from “Chimpanzee,” the latest in the DisneyNature series of documentaries. We don't get to see this happen in a way that would jeopardize the movie's G rating, of course, but between description ...  

Disney's 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees - their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts for smaller monkeys, whom ...  

Oh to be a primate, swinging through the trees without a care in the world except where to find the next meal. That is, unless you’re one of the chimpanzees at the center of the new Disneynature documentary Chimpanzee, who try to protect their ...  

Join fellow supporters and members of Save the Chimps at this fulfilling family event to raise money for and learn more about the world’s largest sanctuary for rescued chimpanzees located in Fort Pierce, Florida ... and a gift basket of ...  

Bill Ronayne TCPalm Posted April 6, 2012 at 5:50 p.m., updated April 6, 2012 at 5:50 p.m. PORT ST. LUCIE — Long before Michael Jackson made Bubbles the Chimp famous, chimpanzees have been good friends to mankind. Chimpanzees are genetically ...  

Neighboring chimp communities have their own nut-cracking stylesPhys.OrgCurrent Biology People don't always do as their neighbors do, and the same is true of neighboring chimpanzees. That's according to a report published online on May 10 in Current Biology featuring observations of wild chimps as they used hammers to ...and more »  

It’s the same world Dr. Jane Goodall, a British “rock star” primatologist ... adopted by an alpha male. This one-night-only presentation was via live satellite, broadcast from L.A., which meant watching it in real time as Goodall talked ...  

Jane Goodall, a primatologist (primates), ethologist (animal behavior), anthropologist (humankind) and generally considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, stopped by "The Daily Show" Monday (April 16) to promote a new movie called ...  

The more we learn about chimps, the more we realize they're like humans in many important ways — and a recent report by the Institute of Medicine shows why biomedical research involving chimpanzees is mostly unncessary. In this piece, prominent biologist ...  

SHREVEPORT, La.-- A famous TV personality with ties to the Ozarks has donated half a million dollars for some lucky chimpanzees in Louisiana. Bob Barker was at the dedication Friday of the "Bob Barker Chimpanzee Habitat" at Chimp Haven in ...  

Our ancestors might have started walking on two feet in order to carry food more efficiently suggests new research in the journal Current Biology. Bipedalism (walk on two feet) is one of the key features that distinguish us from chimpanzees...  

At that time birth records for chimpanzees were not kept so Wolf did the next best thing: He asked the expert to estimate Little Mama’s age. Goodall determined that the chimpanzee was between 30 and 35 years old. Splitting the difference ...  

Disney's 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees -- their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts for smaller monkeys ...  

Disney's 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees — their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts for smaller monkeys ...  

Disney’s 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees: their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts for smaller monkeys ...  

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" took top film honors at the Genesis Awards for examining the ethics of using chimpanzees in medical research. The awards, which honor news and entertainment media for raising public awareness of animal issues, were held ...  

Disney’s 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees — their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts for smaller monkeys ...  

Female chimpanzees use copulation calls flexibly to prevent social competition. “The adaptive function of copulation calls in female primates has been debated for years. One influential idea is that copulation calls are a sexually selected ...  

Florida is well known for its retirement communities, often catering to residents with similar lifestyles and interests. There’s a community in Fort Pierce that provides accommodations to a special kind of retiree: chimpanzees. More than 270 chimps call ...  

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was named best feature film of 2011 at the 26th Genesis Awards "for examining the ethics of using chimpanzees in medical research." The best feature documentary award also had a simian angle, as "Born to be Wild ...  

Disney's 2012 movie offering for Earth Day is a gorgeous and technically dazzling look inside the world of chimpanzees — their use of tools, their nurturing instincts, their means of organization during fights and hunts for smaller monkeys.  

The latest Disneynature documentary joins with the Jane Goodall Institute to give a rare glimpse into the world of wild chimpanzees, in the hopes of inspiring action to protect our threatened cousins.  

Chimpanzee, this year’s Earth Day film from Disneynature, is an odd bit of business, simultaneously stunning and maddening. The film, directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, combines breathtaking footage of chimpanzees in the ...  

The kid attractor factor: Chimpanzees, playing, working with tools, eating with their mouths open. Good lessons/bad lessons: "Teamwork beats brute force." Violence: Chimp on chimp, nothing too graphic. Language: Disney clean. Sex: None ...  

“Chimpanzee” opens everywhere on April 20th. Featuring the narration of Tim Allen and chimpanzees Oscar, Isha, Freddy and Scar. Co-produced by the Jane Goodell Institute and directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield. Rated “G”