Vanilla the chimpanzee that went viral with a video that shows her seeing open sky for the first time. Save The Chimps For the first time in her 29 years, a chimp named Vanilla finally saw the sky. A ...

"It is the first time she was outdoors with more than 10 feet of fence around her on all sides from top to bottom," said Dan Mathews with Save The Chimps Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...

After nearly three decades cooped up inside a New York laboratory, a heartwarming video posted on social media showed the moment a chimpanzee was stunned when she gazed for the first time at the open ...

A female chimpanzee was born at the Maryland Zoo on June 10. Now she’s waiting for a name. The infant will join Maryland Zoo’s three other juvenile chimps as chimpanzees learn from birth how to get ...

Keepers at the Sedgwick County Zoo are cautiously celebrating the arrival of a new baby chimp, born eight months after the accidental death of another newborn chimp that staff had grown attached to.

MORGANTON, Ga. — A former research lab chimpanzee has died at an animal sanctuary in north Georgia at age 36. Project Chimps, a nonprofit sanctuary for chimpanzees formerly used in research labs, ...

Some still persist today, including the tale of a chimp-human hybrid supposedly birthed at the facility. An unassuming office complex off of Kingsley Avenue housed the Yerkes National Primate Research ...