Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. We hear about the tests ...

PETA releases never-before-seen video taken inside a university laboratory, where experimenters torment days-old infant ...

A married couple spent a month sleeping with a baby chimp in their bed—in a bid to save its life. Baby western chimpanzee Jane was abandoned by her mom Tara shortly after she was born in ...

A married couple spent a month sleeping with a baby chimp in their bed – in a bid to save its life. Baby western chimpanzee Jane was abandoned by her mum Tara shortly after she was born in February – ...

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Rockhampton Zoo's chimpanzee, Sile, dropped baby Cassie in the hours after birth, fracturing its femur. The newborn is now in a cast and staff are hand-rearing it. Despite the fall, keepers say mum ...

Lizzy at Project Chimps in North Georgia loves her stuffed Grinch toy. Lizzy, a chimpanzee at Project Chimps chimpanzee sanctuary in north Georgia, has formed a special bond with Grinch plushies. “She ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new report finds thousands of African primates, including chimpanzees and gorillas, are being traded both legally and illegally. Most of the ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

In 2014, University of California, Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley wrote a book called The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol. His controversial “drunken monkey hypothesis” proposed that ...

Scientists studying chimpanzees and bonobos found that mothers often carry deceased infants for weeks or months, reflecting enduring maternal bonds. Research suggests the behaviour depends on the ...