Nine chimpanzees once used as research animals now have a new lease on life. The group was moved to a new refuge in northern Georgia, hundreds of miles from their former home in a lab. Buttercup and ...

Meet the Chimps takes viewers to the center of the social dynamics between the 300+ chimpanzees living at Chimp Haven Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Sometimes, the joy of a holiday gift isn't in the gift itself but in the thrill of opening it. Nowhere is that exuberance on ...

Scientists have documented what appear to be the first-ever lethal chimpanzee attacks against gorillas, according to a new study. Researchers at Osnabrück University and the Max Planck Institute for ...

The National Institutes of Health said this week that it would put an end to research on chimpanzees, years after its European counterparts did the same. Ethical concerns, peer pressure on scientists, ...

Many of the chimps found it more exciting to eat the snow than play in it! Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Chimpanzees in the wild are performing what looks like first aid on each other's wounds, and primatologists are only just beginning to formally catalogue the behavior. In the forests of Africa, ...

A heartwarming video of chimpanzees — used for decades by labs across the United States for research — being set free at a sanctuary in northern Georgia has taken the internet by storm. The chimps are ...

Chimps owned by the National Institutes of Health should be moved from research facilities to retirement sanctuaries unless that relocation is "extremely likely" to shorten their lives, a report ...