Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa and Asia. Apes have shown resilience to these disruptions by adapting ...

A study on the effect of global warming on African ape survival suggests that a warming climate may cause apes to run ‘out of time’. The research reveals that rising temperatures and changes in ...

When Jane Goodall first trekked into the Tanzanian forest, in 1960, the chimpanzees that she encountered were so unaccustomed to humans that they fled whenever they saw her. Nearly a year passed, she ...

Andy Serkis grabbed our attention as Gollum in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, but the English actor has now taken on another role he said is a little more like himself – an ape named Caesar in the ...

William and Mary anthropologist Barbara King has a piece in today’s issue of The Washington Post refuting what she calls the mischaracterization of apes by a writer of a July 27 opinion piece in the ...

Blink Entertainment is behind Going Ape, a three-part special premiering on May 13 on National Geographic Channel in the U.S., which explores the connection between human and ape behavior.

Japan-based researcher and comparative psychologist Fumihiro Kano is also a unique filmmaker—he makes movies specifically for animals. Kano, who specializes in the study of ape behavior, recently ...

There’s no disputing the evolution of Hollywood apes since “King Kong” first terrorized audiences in 1933. Back then, the king of the apes was a fur-covered puppet. In the old “Planet of the Apes” ...

Videos of chimpanzees sharing alcoholic fruit suggest that this behavior could have led to feasting in humans, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...