A zoo has welcomed the arrival of an endangered animal. The 26-year-old female chimpanzee, called Jessie, joined Colchester Zoo on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. She joined from Welsh Mountain Zoo as part ...

In the mid-1970s, primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that changed her opinion of chimpanzees forever: A four-year conflict amongst the... Why a chimp 'civil war' shows how societies ...

Animal intelligence is not just about problem-solving—it directly shapes how species hunt, fight, and survive under constant pressure. From chimpanzees forming alliances and using tools to gain ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A captive chimpanzee in Japan spontaneously ripped floorboards from a walkway and used them as instruments to perform structured, rhythmic drumming ...

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate... What a chimpanzee 'civil war' can teach us about ...

Since 1995, scientists have tracked a huge group of chimpanzees living in the forests of Uganda. The sustained research, featured in the 2023 documentary “Chimp Empire,” has led to profound insights ...

Researchers have documented a permanent split between the largest-known group of wild chimpanzees, which erupted into a lethal civil war over the past several years — findings that could help ...

Scientists have documented a 'chimp civil war' within the world's largest known group of Ngogo chimpanzees in a Ugandan national park - a conflict that has been unfolding over the past eight years. A ...

The Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda have divided themselves into two main factions, and dozens of deaths have been recorded since the split in 2018. A new study details the unprecedented violence, which c ...

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war." ...

The largest group of wild chimpanzees known to scientists has permanently split in two. In a study published in Science, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions ...