Can Great Apes Be Vaccinated Against Ebola and Other Diseases?
Vaccinations could be the best defense against devastating population drops
Tiny Ancient Skeleton Redefines the Split Between Monkeys and Apes
The last common ancestor of all apes may have been smaller than previously thought
Why Primatologists Love Collecting Poop
There’s intel inside monkey feces — in the form of DNA
Female Chimps More Likely Than Males to Hunt With Tools
A new study investigates the social and hunting behaviors of Fongoli chimpanzees
Illegal Cocoa Farms Are Driving Out Primates In Ivory Coast
Thirteen national parks and reserves have lost all their primates as people move in to protected regions to farm cacao
Chimpanzees May Have Their Own Form of Bilingualism
Humans aren’t the only primates capable of learning new “words” for the same object
Chimps Caught in First Known Nighttime Crop Raids
“The nightlife of chimpanzees has been neglected,” say researchers who filmed wild animals using a fallen tree as a bridge into protected cornfields
Yawning Spreads Like a Plague in Wolves
Evidence of contagious yawning in chimps, dogs and now wolves suggests that the behavior is linked to a mammalian sense of empathy
Borneo Has Lost 30 Percent of Its Forest in the Past 40 Years
Borneo’s tropical forests have fallen at twice the rate as the rest of the world’s felled rainforests
Ebola Vaccine For Chimps Could Help Save Wild Populations
A trial of a chimp vaccine highlights debates over vaccinating wild populations and using chimps in medical research
Chimpanzees Are Extremely Picky About Where They Sleep
The primates painstakingly rebuild their nest from scratch every night—a pre-bed ritual reminiscent of the “Princess and the Pea”
Spider Monkeys Are the Only Other Primate Species That Segregates by Sex
Spider monkey females are basically living together in a feminist commune to escape the aggressive, greedy males
We Burn Just Half the Calories Other Mammals Do
Our slow metabolism helps explain why it takes us so long to grow up—and why we live such long lives
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
UPDATE: State of Emergency
The latest on the endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo
Animal Insight
Recent studies illustrate which traits humans and apes have in common—and which they don’t
Guerrillas in Their Midst
Face to face with Congo’s imperiled mountain gorillas
State of Emergency
The slaughter of four endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo sparks conservationist action
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