#chimpanzee

Source: Good News Network An anonymous $2 million donation from a stranger is providing a new home to over 200 chimpanzees who have been living in research facilities. The chimps are now one step closer to retirement thanks to the multi-million donation which was made to Chimp Haven, the

Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura Our bedrooms feel like cozy, tidy cocoons, insulated from the outside world. But they have ecosystems all their own, teeming with bacteria and other microscopic life, both from the body’s resident biome and from what we bring in with us from

This is Mama, a 59 year-old chimpanzee who was matriarch of the colony at the Royal Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The colony is famous as the basis of groundbreaking research involving primate behavior, resulting in the book Chimpanzee Politics by Frans De Waal. Back in April 2016 she