Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered "persons" with human rights, according to the state's Court of Appeals. That means ...

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A Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Friday that chimpanzees are not human, and will not be granted release from a zoo in the ...

As scientists have studied the chimpanzee, they’ve found more and more similarities between humans and their closest living relatives. But when it comes to the courts, chimps and humans couldn’t be ...

Chimpanzees consume daily alcohol equivalent to two cocktails from ripe fruits, shedding light on human evolutionary ties to ...

Did researchers discover a shocking display of primate intelligence when a band of chimps in the Congo began wearing masks to ...

A 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus fossil named "Ardi" shows early humans walked upright, keeping ape-like climbing ...

Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To ...

While this might not seem like much, chimps eat so much fruit (around 10 percent of their body mass every day!), it ends up ...

Scientists estimate chimps’ alcohol consumption for the first time, and find they seem to prefer boozier fruit.

A new study seems to further the "drunken monkey" hypothesis that says chimpanzees are drawn to fermented fruits with alcohol ...

In a case which the results would seem obvious to most people and make litigating it unnecessary, the Michigan Court of Appeals had to rule that ...