What role does environmental settings play in behavior? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated behaviors ...

Some even hailed them as evidence of the “oldest human habit related to oral hygiene.” They have been documented throughout ...

Dartmouth and University of St Andrews researchers propose "scrumping" as a new word to describe the fondness African apes have for eating fermented fruit from the ground. Recent research suggests the ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An orangutan held in an Argentine zoo can be freed and transferred to a sanctuary after a court recognised the ape as a "non-human person" unlawfully deprived of its freedom, ...

The Dublin Zoo’s orangutan, named Mujur, gave birth to a baby male last month. LONDON -- The Dublin Zoo has enlisted a group of new mothers to help its orangutan, Mujur, learn how to feed her newborn ...