A zoo in the U.S. state of Kansas has welcomed the birth of a healthy baby pygmy hippopotamus, raising hope for a species ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are closest living relatives, sharing over 98% DNA. They belong to the genus Pan. Though similar, ...

Monkeys live throughout Asia, Africa, Central America, and South America. They’re distinct from other types of primate, like ...

Bonobos. Image via Unsplash Bonobos (Pan paniscus), sometimes called “pygmy chimpanzees,” demonstrate future planning particularly in social contexts. Research from the Max Planck Institute has shown ...

Following the tests, 14 chimpanzees (57.1 percent) reportedly exhibited signs of contagious yawning. The chimps yawned more frequently when the robot’s mouth was fully agape in a yawn.

In the wild, the endangered pygmy hippos live an average of 30-50 years, but on May 25, 2025, Hannah surpassed the previous record of 51 years, 6 months, and 2 days.

Chimps range across tropical Africa, inhabiting dense rainforest and dry savannah woodland from West Africa to Uganda and Tanzania in the east. The common chimpanzee, along with the pygmy chimpanzee ...

Initially classified as “pygmy chimpanzees,” a term now considered inaccurate, these apes remained scientifically understudied for decades. It wasn’t until the pioneering work of researchers like ...

Humans are primates, and chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest surviving relatives. Primates often groom each other by picking off dirt and ticks, not just to stay clean, but also to build ...

The pygmy chimpanzees “seem to combine calls to convey meaning that cannot be conveyed through single calls alone,” the researchers wrote. Because the genetic lines of humans and bonobos ...

Poppy is nearly four months old and weighs around 80 pounds. According to the zoo, pygmy hippos grow very quickly and by five months, Poppy will be 10 times her birth weight.

Given that Liberia likely has the largest populations of pygmy hippos in the world, FFI’s work covers more pygmy hippos than any other group. Yet, Estela says, due to their lack-of-popularity globally ...