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This first-of-its-kind video could highlight how genetic relatives involve alcohol in social bonding. In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of Exeter have documented wild ...
Fifty three-year-old chimpanzee Cassius has been euthanased at Rockhampton Zoo, after suffering from suspected arthritis and dementia. The zoo says he was the oldest male chimpanzee in ...
Researchers captured wild chimpanzees sharing fermented 'boozy' fruit on camera in Cantanhez Forests National Park in Guinnea ...
You don’t have to venture far to observe humans in the wild sharing a few drinks at mealtime. But we’re not the only ones. For the first time, wild chimps have been recorded indulging in ...
Four chimpanzees who lived in the Tumalo facility, — named Herbie, Emma, Jackson and CJ — were transferred to Primarily Primates, a 78-acre nonprofit animal sanctuary in San Antonio ...
The highlight, however, is that the lodge is located near Uganda's top spot for chimpanzee trekking. My safari guide, Francis Kiwanuka, navigated a long, bumpy clay road into Uganda's mountains.
But what happens when our closest relatives show a taste for alcohol? Wild chimpanzees, just about as close to humans as apes get on the genetic family tree, have been captured on film eating and ...
Since alcohol can sometimes reduce stress levels, the fruit may be encouraging social behavior in the chimps, according to a recent study Anna Bowland/Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project/University of ...
Anna Bowland / Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project / University of Exeter For the first time, scientists have documented chimpanzees in the wild eating and sharing boozy, fermented fruit. The research ...
The 20-time Juno Award-winning musician’s work, created in partnership with chimpanzee artists from the Save the Chimps sanctuary in Florida, is part of a new ‘interspecies’ collaborative ...
Rockhampton Region Councillor Cherie Rutherford said Cassius was well-loved in Rockhampton. Chimp Ockie passed away in 2013. “This news has shattered our entire zoo family, and the community who ...