Leipzig Zoo in central Germany is a world-leading center of great ape research. Recent studies have seen chimpanzees there ...

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BOTTOM LINE An entertaining new entry in the dormant franchise. Humans never come off looking too good in the “Planet of the Apes” movies. In the first film, from 1968, they nuked themselves back to a ...

Apes include a rather broad range of simians (higher primates). Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people will colloquially call it an ape. Apes can be split into two families: Hylobatidae (or lesser ...

There’s no shame in admitting that many of us may struggle to remember the names of our high school friends (or even that friend of a friend you met last week). The same can’t be said for our other ...

Fruit grows on the spindly peripheries of trees. To reach it, large apes need to distribute their weight on branches stemming from the trunk, then reach out with their hands toward their prize. This ...