Tampa, Florida -- Five-month-old chimpanzee Keeva has learned a lot in her young life. She can laugh, reach out and grasp objects, stand upright while holding on, hang briefly from a tree branch or ...

Esther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra Leone's flagship national parks, where unprecedented deforestation and ...

Bala Amarasekaran has never felt like running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone was truly work, having come to his calling only after several unexpected twists of ...

It’s big news at the Los Angeles Zoo on Thursday, Sept. 25, where officials unveiled a tiny chimp girl born to 35-year-old female chimpanzee Yoshi and 26-year-old male Pu’iwa on Aug. 20, and another ...

Nyani, a 34-year-old chimpanzee, had a baby girl at the Detroit Zoo on July 4. The mother and baby are doing well, according to the zoo. Zoo visitors will not see Nyani and her daughter yet, but ...

Baby chimpanzees are some of the cutest babies in the animal kingdom. Newborns are only around 4 pounds at birth, which is smaller than most human babies. Baby chimps live in family groups in the ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- The LA Zoo announced on Thursday the arrival of two new baby chimpanzees -- the first chimpanzees born at the zoo in 11 years. The first baby was born to 35-year-old female Yoshi ...