A chimpanzee that once had to be recaptured after escaping a zoo has died. Koko had been Whipsnade Zoo's oldest chimpanzee ...

A case of whether seven chimpanzees, currently all at the DeYoung Family Zoo in Wallace, Mich., should be granted habeas ...

Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered "persons" with human rights, according to the state's Court of Appeals. That means ...

Chimps are close genetic relatives to humans, with facial expressions, gestures, vocalizations. They live to 50 or more.

I f you’d swung by to see the chimps at Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden, back in 1997, there’s a good chance you might’ve ...

Zoo Knoxville's chimpanzee, Lu, recovers after a landmark spinal surgery that removed a benign tumor, in collaboration ...

Whipsnade Zoo has confirmed that its eldest chimpanzee has sadly passed away. Koko died at the age of 52, having outlived the average chimp by more than a decade, after health issues led to her being ...

Cobby, a 63-year-old chimpanzee who was the oldest male chimp in captivity at an accredited U.S. zoo, died on Friday at the San Francisco Zoo. While the zoo says Cobby's cause of death is not yet ...

An animal rights group plans to appeal a case to the Michigan Supreme Court, seeking an unlawful imprisonment hearing for six ...

S ome animals naturally have extraordinarily long lifespans, like the Greenland shark or the bowhead whale. Others, however, ...

Chimpanzees went ape for basketball and sea lions made a splash after 40 balls were donated to Colchester Zoo. They were ...