NEWS AND COMMENT: Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees in Gabon, Africa, treat each other with the fluid inside an unknown insect (haemolymph) when they have… Read More »Chimpanzees treat cuts with the haemolymph inside insects
What is cumulative culture? The best ways to describe it is to refer to the way that chimpanzees from Bossou, Guinea, have learned to crack… Read More »Chimpanzees have the social skills to benefit from cumulative culture
NEWS AND COMMENT-ANTWERP, BELGIUM: This is a story which turns on the question as to whether a human can have a genuine love affair with… Read More »Woman has love affair with zoo chimp and is banned
This is Ndakasi with her caretaker and lifelong friend Andre Bauma, a park ranger who cared for her. I don’t know but this might be… Read More »Extraordinary photograph of dying female mountain gorilla in the arms of her human caregiver
The picture on this page shows a baboon carrying her long dead infant. It is unsettling but it is also the process of grieving. In… Read More »Grieving apes carry their dead infants
Unquestionably, non-human animals do, indeed, have culture. It is another example of an erosion of the concept of human exceptionalism. Humans like to think that… Read More »Do non-human animals have culture?
We know that humans adopt children through adoption services because their parents are unable to look after their own children for whatever reason. It’s a… Read More »Animals adopting unrelated animals or animals of another species
Zoo gorillas should be given the Covid-19 vaccination because scientists have discovered that captive gorillas at a zoo in California have contracted the disease from,… Read More »Gorillas should be given a Covid-19 vaccination
I can barely write about this because it is so cruel and when you write about cruel things you can be cruel to yourself because… Read More »Cher wants to free gorilla caged for thirty years in a shopping mall
Female gelada monkeys of Ethiopian rapidly mature in the presence of an incoming breeding male. While the biological father of the gelada monkey is present… Read More »Female Ethiopian gelada monkey suppresses development to avoid sex with father