Bala Amarasekaran has never felt like running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone was truly work, having come to his calling only after several unexpected twists of ...

The L.A. Zoo announced Thursday the arrival of two new baby chimpanzees -- the first chimpanzees born at the zoo in 12 years. The first baby was born to 35-year-old female Yoshi and 26-year-old male ...

Baby chimpanzees are some of the cutest babies in the animal kingdom. Newborns are only around 4 pounds at birth, which is smaller than most human babies. Baby chimps live in family groups in the ...

Esther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra Leone's flagship national parks, where unprecedented deforestation and ...

It’s big news at the Los Angeles Zoo on Thursday, Sept. 25, where officials unveiled a tiny chimp girl born to 35-year-old female chimpanzee Yoshi and 26-year-old male Pu’iwa on Aug. 20, and another ...

Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary has become the Sierra Leone's leading ecotourism destination and a model for environmental conservation in west Africa. Founder and director Bala Amarasekaran at the ...