Part of that research included the installment of trail cameras throughout the park, as researchers hoped to catch a glimpse of a lion or leopard, the focus of their study. But on Jan. 27, as the ...

As a result, chimpanzees are forced into small areas of the forest where they are more vulnerable to poaching (to be kept as ...

The study documents the loss of a socially learned behavior — a mating signal — among a group of chimpanzees following the poaching of all of the group’s male members. Once lost, behaviors ...

the chimpanzee.” The park was designated as a protected area in 2002 following research by Philipp Henschel, who documented the “uncontrolled poaching and unregulated bushmeat hunting ...

Chimpanzees are endangered due to habitat destruction, poaching and infectious disease. The results of this study could also inform conservation as they suggest that climate and land use changes ...

often even bigger than habitat loss or poaching, said Nature. Humans have transmitted Covid-19 to "a panoply of species", but chimpanzees and gorillas, so biologically similar to humans ...

Choppers, a Western Chimpanzee, played Grandmother Ada Lott ... found evidence of traumatic injuries sustained when Chopper was poached from the wild, which impacted her throughout her life ...