Alastair Fothergill sits beside a colony of black-browed albatross on Steeple Jason Island in the Falklands. the kill itself isn’t interesting, because once animals have killed, the story’s ...

An Austrian group has asked the court to appoint a guardian for a chimpanzee—and thus to declare him to be a person. On April 1, the Guardian published an article that might have been mistaken ...

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An angry mob have ransacked a zoo after a famous local chimpanzee ripped a baby from a mum's arms and killed her. The child's distraught mother, Seny Zogba, claims she was working in a field of ...

Chimpanzees watching a video together get the same sense of bonding and closeness that humans can feel from watching a movie or TV show together, say US university researchers. Pairs of chimps ...

Filming was difficult because of the extreme cold. "At one stage, the yacht's water tanks completely froze," Fothergill says. "On another occasion, a massive storm pushed the yacht up onto an ice ...

Instead, the series wound up focusing on Haddix’s intense relationship with her movie-star pet chimpanzee Tonka and her ensuing battle against PETA after she faked the ape’s death.

Wild chimpanzees eat plants that have pain-relieving and anti-bacterial properties to heal themselves, according to scientists. They described their “detective work” in the forests of Uganda ...

Alice Fothergill is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Vermont. Her areas of scholarship and teaching include disaster vulnerability, family and childhood studies, gender, inequality ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are amazingly similar to us—and each other: The two species of great ape have genomes that are nearly ...

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