Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered "persons" with human rights, according to the state's Court of Appeals. That means ...
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Did researchers discover a shocking display of primate intelligence when a band of chimps in the Congo began wearing masks to ...
A Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Friday that chimpanzees are not human, and will not be granted release from a zoo in the ...
The Michigan Court of Appeals has denied a writ of habeas corpus for seven chimpanzees currently at the DeYoung Family Zoo in ...
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 ...
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 help settle the matter, the study authors compared the specimen’s talus – or ...
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 ...
Scientists report that chimpanzees consume about 14 grams of alcohol daily and suggest the result might help explain humans' ...