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Primatology

July 2024

  • Chimpanzees

    Chimpanzees communicate in similar quick-fire fashion to humans, study shows

    Analysis of thousands of wild chimp gestures in east Africa found striking similarities to human conversations

June 2024

  • Black fossilised teeth

    Smallest known great ape, which lived 11m years ago, found in Germany

    Buronius manfredschmidi estimated to have weighed just 10kg and was about the size of a human toddler

May 2024

  • Two reddy brown orangutans handing from a perch

    Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

  • Orangutan pulling Fibraurea tinctoria leaves towards itself, with a leaf hanging out of its mouth.

    Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals

April 2024

  • Bonobos sitting in a tree

    Bonobos not the peace-loving primates once thought, study reveals

    Male-on-male aggression more frequent among bonobos than chimps, but aggression between males and females less common

March 2024

  • Frans de Waal, primatologist and author, poses with chimpanzees at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, Saturday, January 22, 2006. (Photo by Kuni Takahashi/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

    Frans de Waal obituary

    Primatologist whose studies showed that non-human apes can behave with compassion, cooperation and cunning

February 2024

  • A two-year-old orangutan baby

    Science Weekly
    What apes can tell us about the origins of teasing

  • Two gorillas playing with each other

    Juvenile great apes love to tease and annoy their elders, study finds

January 2024

  • Scotland: Drone footage shows runaway monkey after fleeing wildlife park – video

    Japanese macaque, also known as a snow monkey, spotted 300 metres from a Scottish wildlife park three nights after it escaped

October 2023

  • A female chimpanzee carries her granddaughters.

    Wild female chimps live long post-menopause life, study suggests

    Scientists say it is first evidence of non-human primates living substantial post-reproductive life

June 2023

  • Deputy director of US naval intelligence, Scott Bray, plays a video of a UAP during the first US public hearing on the phenomena since the 1960s.

    Brief letters
    Style points for extraterrestrials

  • A group of bonobos at San Diego zoo in California

    Origins of masturbation traced back to primates 40m years ago

May 2023

  • Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Ugandan veterinarian, and the founder of Conservation Through Public Health

    The age of extinction
    Uganda’s first wildlife vet on breaking the mould – and why gorilla and human health are linked

    When Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka started out there were no black women in her field. She talks about creating roles for African leaders in wildlife and how protecting people is core to protecting the animals they live near

January 2023

  • World's rarest chimpanzee species baby born at Chester zoo – video

    The newborn is said to be in good health and can be seen playing with his mother ZeeZee 

September 2022

  • A bonobo licking an ice lolly at Twycross zoo in July

    Humans were not the only primates to get lockdown blues, UK study finds

    When zoos were closed some primates became solitary and sedentary while others displayed dominant behaviour

August 2022

  • Gorillas at San Diego Zoo safari park. Vocal membranes allow other primates to make louder, higher-pitched calls than humans.

    How quirk of primate evolution gave humans the voice apes lack

  • A monkey takes food left by volunteers.

    WHO stresses monkeypox surge not linked to monkeys amid attack reports

June 2022

  • A white-faced saki monkey

    Monkeys favour music over screen time, say researchers

    In the study at a zoo in Helsinki, white-faced sakis could trigger audio or visual stimuli on demand

April 2022

  • Frans de Waal, photographed at his home in Smoke Rise, Georgia, for the Observer New Review.

    Frans de Waal: ‘In other primates, I don’t find the kind of intolerance we have’

    What can the behaviour of apes teach us about sex and gender? A great deal, according to a new book by primatologist Frans de Waal – and his findings are already stirring controversy

March 2022

  • Mark Beeson

    Other lives
    Mark Beeson obituary

    Other lives: Playwright, poet, primatologist, ecologist, and founder of MED Theatre, a focus of rural community drama on Dartmoor
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