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Watch chimpanzees hunt monkeys through the forest canopy

Chimpanzees share 98.8% of our DNA, making them the closest living relatives humans have. They use tools, form political ...
Earth.com

Did the Clovis people hunt big animals in Ice Age North America or were they just scavengers?

Analysis of Clovis stone points found among mammoth bones shows no evidence that the mammoth's were killed by hunters.
eturbonews

Tanzania’s Iconic Gombe Chimpanzees Plunge Nearly 50 Percent Since Jane Goodall’s Era

The descendants of the chimpanzees that helped Jane Goodall revolutionize modern science are disappearing from the forests of western Tanzania. In Gombe National Park, one of the world’s most famous ...
Variety

Where Is Michael Jackson’s Chimpanzee Bubbles Now? Inside His ‘Peaceful’ Life and Why Filmmakers Used a CGI Chimp in ‘Michael’

Featured in the movie are several of Jackson’s pets that he owned when he still lived at his family estate in Encino, Calif., including a llama, giraffe and a python as well as the most famous of them ...
radaronline

Michael Jackson's Chimp Bubbles' New Life Revealed: Ultra-Famous Monkey, Now 43, Living 'Privately' After Retiring From Show Biz — As He's Portrayed by CGI in King of Pop's ...

Michael Jackson's new biopic might not be thrilling critics, but the movie apparently does have one breakout star, RadarOnline.com can reveal – Bubbles the chimp. While he's being portrayed by CGI in ...
CNN

Chimpanzees in Uganda are in a ‘civil war,’ and researchers are unsure how it will end

Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing a group of apes on June 24, 2015, in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, where the project ...
Mongabay

A chimpanzee’s rhythmic drumming with floorboards hints at origins of instruments

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A captive chimpanzee in Japan spontaneously ripped floorboards from a walkway and used them as instruments to perform structured, rhythmic drumming ...
Mongabay

Defying conflict to track the world’s rarest chimpanzees

GASHAKA GUMTI NATIONAL PARK, Nigeria — Here in Nigeria’s largest protected wilderness area lies one of the last strongholds of the Nigeria–Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti), the world’s ...
City Journal

More Man Than Ape

The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned ...
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Watch what happens when chimpanzees plan an attack together

Chimpanzees are among the most intelligent animals on Earth - and also some of the most complex. They use tools, communicate, and even organize coordinated group hunts. But their behavior can also ...
The New York Times

Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals

In an attempt to understand our own fascination with the shiny minerals, researchers gave some to chimps. A chimp named Toti attentively observes a quartz crystal at a rehabilitation facility in Spain ...