By Shreya Dasgupta A zoo in the U.S. state of Kansas has welcomed the birth of a healthy baby pygmy hippopotamus, raising hope for a species that’s becoming rare in the wild. The yet-to-be-named male ...

The pygmy chimpanzees “seem to combine calls to convey meaning that… Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found.

Chimpanzees and bonobos are amazingly similar to us—and each other: The two species of great ape have genomes that are nearly the same as ours, and they resemble each other to the point that ...

Just a few months after Moo Deng's birth, a female pygmy calf named Haggis claimed social media fame. Born in October 2024, Haggis resides at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo.