And chimps outperform humans. I once watched Matsuzawa show videos of his experiments with Ai and Ayumu at a conference attended by the world’s leading chimp researchers, including Jane Goodall, ...

A committee of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine has prepared a report on the necessity of chimpanzee experimentation. The report was recently released and concluded that the use of ...

Luella and Winthrop Niles Kellogg thought they could use their own child in a chilling experiment involving a chimpanzee. Toddler Donald Kellogg was just 10 months old when he was one of the subjects ...

Following an expert panel's recommendations, The National Institutes of Health announced it will not issue new awards for experiments using chimps... Biomedical Research Using Chimps Curtailed Updated ...

Re Anjana Ahuja’s column “Chimps are better at reasoning than we think” ( Opinion, November 12), the findings remind us how thin the line is between human and animal intelligence. The experiments ...

1) That the knowledge gained must be necessary to advance the public’s health; 2) There must be no other research model by which the knowledge could be obtained, and the research cannot be ethically ...

Haven is a place on Earth. Chimp Haven, that is — the retirement home for New Mexico chimpanzees used for biomedical experiments at Holloman Air Force Base’s Alamogordo Primate Facility. Earlier this ...

The National Institutes of Health wants you to believe that chimpanzee experimentation is necessary. It so badly wants you to believe this that the agency just two months ago began to use your tax ...

Source: Ruben van Kuik, via Wikimedia Commons. How do scientists study the evolution of human culture and cognition? There aren’t any early hominins around—but there are chimpanzees, our closest ...