On the last full day of his life, Basie, a large gregarious male chimpanzee, woke up at dawn in a tree nest he’d fashioned from branches and leaves, surrounded by other chimps also dozing in nests, as ...

This shows adult male chimpanzees of one group attacking a male chimpanzee of another group in 2019 The world's largest known group of wild chimpanzees has split and been locked in a vicious "civil ...

In the mid-1970s, more than a decade into her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, the late and legendary primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that horrified her. The ...

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 ...

For years, two sets of chimpanzees lived as one in Uganda’s Kibale National Park — grooming, interacting and patrolling their territory in a cohesive community. Then suddenly, one set charged the ...

The Gombe Stream National Park is a beautiful park in Tanzania, filled with nature, steep valleys, and multiple forest vegetation types. The terrain is only accessible by boat and because of its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Congolese Army soldier holds a baby chimpanzee while manning a checkpoint in the entrance to the provincial capital of Goma, ...

The Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda's Kibale National Park is the largest known community of wild chimpanzees in the world. Over the last decade, it has split into two distinct groups that are ...

Like with humans, it is not uncommon in the natural world for a group of animals to split apart and form their own independent groups. But what a new study in the journal Science depicts in the ...