Primates
A Quest to Save the Orangutan
Birute Mary Galdikas has devoted her life to saving the great ape. But the orangutan faces its greatest threat yet
December 2010 |
By Bill Brubaker
Thinking Like a Chimpanzee
Tetsuro Matsuzawa has spent 30 years studying our closest primate relative to better understand the human mind
September 2010 |
By Jon Cohen
Famous Animal Gravesites Around the World
It's not just Kentucky Derby winners that are buried with great honor
April 28, 2010 |
By Robin T. Reid
Saving the Silky Sifaka
In Madagascar, an American researcher races to protect one of the world's rarest mammals, a white lemur known as the silky sifaka
April 2010 |
By Erica R. Hendry
How Sleepy Are Sloths and Other Lessons Learned
Smithsonian scientists use radio technology to track animals in an island jungle in the middle of the Panama Canal
February 03, 2010 |
By Megan Gambino
Ethiopia's Exotic Monkeys
High in the Simien Mountains, researchers are getting a close-up look at the exotic, socially adventuresome primates known as geladas
December 2009 |
By Abigail Tucker
Hominids’ African Origins, 50 Years Later
Before Mary Leakey’s discovery of hominid fossils in East Africa, many experts thought that human ancestors evolved in Asia
July 23, 2009 |
By Laura Helmuth
The Great Human Migration
Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
July 2008 |
By Guy Gugliotta
UPDATE: State of Emergency
The latest on the endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo
January 09, 2008 |
By Jess Blumberg
Thinking Like a Monkey
What do our primate cousins know and when do they know it? Researcher Laurie Santos is trying to read their minds
January 2008 |
By Jerry Adler
Animal Insight
Recent studies illustrate which traits humans and apes have in common—and which they don't
October 11, 2007 |
By Anne Casselman
Guerrillas in Their Midst
Face to face with Congo's imperiled mountain gorillas
October 2007 |
By Paul Raffaele
State of Emergency
The slaughter of four endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo sparks conservationist action
August 01, 2007 |
By Jess Blumberg
Meditate on It
Could ancient campfire rituals have separated us from Neanderthals?
February 01, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
The Smart and Swinging Bonobo
Civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has threatened the existence of wild bonobos, while new research on the hypersexual primates challenges their peace-loving reputation
November 2006 |
By Paul Raffaele
Speaking Bonobo
Bonobos have an impressive vocabulary, especially when it comes to snacks
November 2006 |
By Paul Raffaele
Bonobo Paradise
Lola Ya Bonobo, or "Bonobo Paradise" in the Lingala language, is an 86-acre sanctuary set in verdant hills 20 miles south of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
November 01, 2006 |
By Paul Raffaele
Teeth Tales
Fossils tell a new story about the diversity of hominid diets
November 01, 2006 |
By Eric Jaffe
Monkey in the Middle
Blamed for destroying one of North Africa's most important forests, Morocco's Barbary macaques struggle to survive
March 2004 |
By John F. Ross
