All news on the topic: Chimpanzees

Winthrop and Luella Kellogg raised their son Donald with a chimp 'sister' called Gua but ended up abandoning their experiment after noticing disturbing changes in their baby boy

In the quest to cure type 1 diabetes, scientists have made a surprising discovery – a gene that’s essential for forming the pancreas in human beings is absent from almost all other animals, except apes

The clips of the presenter will give a striking comparison of the current habitat in Uganda, East Africa, when they are aired in this weekend's episode

Brain health scientist Professor Michael Crawford says 'we are heading for an idiocracy' if the nation doesn't improve their diets, as we're currently deficient of one staple ingredient

A family in Turkey was found to walk on all fours, a trait never before reported in modern humans, and scientists are exploring the link between it and the theory of human evolution

One woman went off the beaten track to have the adventure of a lifetime, seeing gorillas, hippos, turtles and more in the wilds of the West African nation

A chimpanzee called Buck had been part of owner Tamara Brogoitti's family for 17 years before he suddenly attacked her daughter and was a "ticking time bomb" said animal rights groups

For space-tight Brits, miniature breeds have been winning our hearts and they are rapidly starting to catch up on dogs'm status as 'man's best friend'

Vanilla the chimpanzee was born into the notorious Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates in Tuxedo, New York, where she spent her life inside a tiny elevated mesh cage before being rescued

At the size of a small cow, the sperm whale is the largest and most ambitious of the animatronic camera-carrying creatures to be built so far

WARNING - UPSETTING CONTENT: Travis the chimp was treated like their own child by Sandra and Jerome Herold and was loved by all who met him - then he snapped and brutal attacked the couple’s friend Charla Nash

In a clip posted on Instagram, which has racked up 9.2 million views and more than 980,000 likes, the adorable baby can be seen giving a cuddle to its new carer.

Images show an angry chimp at Nanning Zoo, in China, throwing a water bottle at a girl, who had been filming him. The bottle hit her in the eye and left her bleeding