Jane Goodall, without formal university training, revolutionized primatology by observing chimpanzees with patience and ...

According to Kuteesa Swelley Kadoma, Director of Friends of Chimpanzee Family organization, the poachers, believed to be from Kitehe village, tracked and killed the chimpanzee in Katyaboona Forest, ...

Do animals grieve for their dead? Do they have an awareness of what death is? Researchers have been trying to find ...

A grieving gorilla and a human theory of loss reveal why witnessing death firsthand may be a crucial – and often denied – ...

Horses are affected by death and grief of one of their own. One video shows how a group of horses mourned a deceased herdmate ...

For these females, the strength of their maternal programming – rather than any inherent understanding of the nature of death ...

A shriek broke the dawn on the savanna, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli chimps were bidding each other good morning in the dry, scraggly Sahel. The rare ...

Laura M. MacLatchy receives funding from the Leakey Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the University of Michigan. Lauren Sarringhaus receives funding from the National Science Foundation, ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison University expected to find risky behavior to peak in adolescence in a study of ...

Happy New Year, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners… though frankly, I’m not too happy about it. Old 2024 may have been an Annus Horribilis, but 2025 marked The End. Finis for me. That is, on ...

SOME OLD FRIENDS. SO ABBY’S CARRYING IVY. SHE’S IVY’S FOSTER MOM, AND THEN FOLLOWING THEM AROUND. IS LOLA IN THE CHIMPANZEE FOREST AT THE MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE. THEY DON’T KNOW IT YET, BUT THE ...