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Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) is endemic to Madagascar. Image courtesy of Matthias Markolf.

Top 25 most threatened primates highlighted in new report urging action

Malavika Vyawahare 8 May 2025
A western lowland gorilla in Cameroon.

In Cameroon’s forgotten forests, gorillas and chimps hang on

Spoorthy Raman 7 May 2025
A young orangutan grasps and hangs on to a woody liana.

As apes adapt to human disturbance, their new behaviors also put them at risk: Study

Charles Mpaka 24 Mar 2025
Image of a male western chimpanzee

When a chimp community lost its males, it also lost part of its love language

Ryan Truscott 11 Mar 2025
Western lowland gorilla.

‘Some people will die’: Conversations with Nigeria’s gorilla hunters

Orji Sunday 27 Feb 2025
An endangered eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

DRC government directive triggers panic in ape sanctuaries amid ongoing conflict

Spoorthy Raman 21 Feb 2025

Chimps remember, for years, the location of ant nests that provide food

Charles Mpaka 3 Feb 2025

To conserve chimps, understand their genetic traits and local adaptations, says study

Gilbert Nakweya 29 Jan 2025

Rare new Guinean flower is ‘canary in a coal mine’ — but in an actual iron mine

Ryan Truscott 27 Dec 2024
A team from Action for Sustainable Development Investigating the causes of deforestation alerts in Mengame Gorilla Sanctuary in southern Cameroon. Image courtesy of Genevieve Ndjiki.

Monitoring group cracks down on deforestation in Cameroon gorilla sanctuary

Ruth Kamnitzer 28 Nov 2024

Africa’s great ape sanctuaries are feeling the heat from climate change

Tina Deines 5 Jul 2024

Sick chimps seek out medicinal plants to heal themselves, study finds

Charles Mpaka 20 Jun 2024
a western chimpanzee in a tree

Setback for Guinea mine that threatens World Heritage chimp reserve

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2024

Chimps are lifelong learners, study on tool use shows

Charles Mpaka 9 May 2024
Two chimpanzees interacting playfully.

No joking: Great apes can be silly and playfully tease each other, finds study

Spoorthy Raman 8 Mar 2024
A Müller's gibbon.

Male dominance isn’t the default in primate societies, new study shows

Tina Deines 4 Mar 2024
Image of a honeybee by Andrea Fabiani Ph via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Bees bring honey and hope to a forest reserve in Nigeria

Orji Sunday 24 Feb 2024
Chimpanzee

A rush for ‘green’ iron is on in Guinea. Will chimpanzees be a casualty?

Juliette Portala 17 Jan 2024
Bonobos and chimps recall friends and family even after years apart: Study

Bonobos and chimps recall friends and family even after years apart: Study

Malavika Vyawahare 15 Jan 2024

Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds

Orji Sunday 1 Dec 2023
Red colobus monkey in Uganda. Image by Julie Kearney Wasserman via U.S. National Science Foundation.

Are flame retardants about to burn a hole in biodiversity? (commentary)

Marta Venier and Michael Wasserman 13 Nov 2023

Poverty-fueled deforestation of Nigerian reserve slashes hope for rare chimps

Orji Sunday 10 Jul 2023
An eastern chimpanzee

Ground-nesting chimps hold lessons for conservation — and for human evolution

Ini Ekott 27 Apr 2023
a western chimpanzee in a tree

Guinea’s crab-fishing chimps are in good health, study shows, but threats loom

Ryan Truscott 3 Apr 2023
A Djouroutou chimpanzee cracks open a panda nut on a wooden anvil. Photo credit: Liran Samuni, Taï Chimpanzee Project

Chimpanzee nut cracking leaves telltale marks on stones, providing clues to human evolution

Kate Hull 13 Dec 2022

Study highlights ‘friends with benefits’ relation between gorillas and chimps

Ryan Truscott 12 Oct 2022
A bonobo

Easygoing bonobos accepting of outsiders, study says

Charles Mpaka 10 Oct 2022
Bua Noi in her enclosure

Thai zoos come under scrutiny again as tourism rebounds from COVID-19

Shannon Brault 10 Oct 2022
Two chimpanzees in the wild

Trafficked: Kidnapped chimps, jailed rhino horn traffickers, and seized donkey parts

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2022
A chimpanzee digs a well as another adult chimpanzee with an infant watches.

Chimps digging wells shows learned behavior that may help amid climate change

Manon Verchot, Sanshey Biswas 28 Jul 2022
A chimpanzee in the Congo rainforests

Data from droppings: Researchers draw up a genetic ID map for chimps

Charles Mpaka 1 Jul 2022
A Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus).

Côte d’Ivoire’s chimp habitats are shrinking, but there’s hope in their numbers

Manon Verchot 25 Apr 2022

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