The study focused on Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo who died in March 2025 at the age of 44. Ape Initiative.
For once, there’s good news in animal conservation. A population of Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys ( Rhinopithecus avunculus )—critically endangered primates with colorful faces and big lips—is stable.
Punch, a Japanese macaque, received an outpour of online love after videos of him clutching a small orangutan plushie at the ...
You’re at a pretend tea party, but instead of sitting across from toddlers in tiaras, you’re clinking cups with Kanzi—an ape ...
No, chimpanzees and other great apes cannot breed with monkeys. Even though we often think of primates – the order of mammals that includes great apes such as chimps and ourselves, gibbons, monkeys ...
Young primates in a southern African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention ...
It’s a common mistake to think we came directly from the monkeys or chimps you see at the zoo today, […] ...
(CNN) — Children love to play pretend, holding imaginary tea parties, educating classrooms of teddies or running their own grocery stores. Now, a new study suggests that such make-believe play is not ...
Children love to play pretend, holding imaginary tea parties, educating classrooms of teddies or running their own grocery stores. Now, a new study suggests that such make-believe play is not a ...