Affection in infants was long thought to be generated by the satisfactions of feeding. Studies of young rhesus monkeys now indicate that love derives mainly from close bodily contact By Harry F ...

Young female black-and-white snub-nosed monkeys often want to hold other females’ infants, but mothers are much more ...

Young female chimpanzees make their nests earlier and more often than young male chimps, demonstrating their independence right from the start, a new UdeM study finds. When do you make your bed?

Kidnapped from his family as an infant, then raised by a drug lord before ending up in a Colombian zoo, Yoko the chimpanzee ...

Natalia the chimp has been carrying her dead baby since February, when the newborn primate died two weeks after their birth Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Conservationists hope the birth of a monkey will help raise awareness of a "vulnerable" breed threatened by deforestation of its habitat. Northumberland College Zoo at Kirkley Hall, Ponteland, ...

Like humans, chimpanzees can rise to the occasion in front of a large audience or fail miserably, scientists said. The team performed an experiment on six chimpanzees that have learned to use ...