Kiyomasa, a 13-year-old western lowland gorilla at Japan's Higashiyama Zoo, has become an internet sensation after a video showed him sitting alone in a thoughtful pose following a reported ...

Summary: Laughter is a universal human trait shared by all living great apes, including chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. However, the exact evolutionary trajectory of laughter, and how ...

Female orangutans are generally solitary, but they travel more and eat less in an apparent effort to ensure their offspring ...

Nikki Engleman, 36, from Anoka, Minnesota, US, has spent the past decade teaching her deaf Bull Terrier, Peewee, sign ...

While laughing seems uniquely human, it is not. Researchers now have compared laughter in humans to laughter in the various ...

More than 5 percent of the species is estimated to have been lost when a climate-fueled storm unleashed torrents of water, mud and debris. By Catrin Einhorn The critically endangered Tapanuli ...

The study compared laughter from four orangutans, two gorillas, three bonobos, four chimpanzees, and four human children, ...

A village in Ghana's cocoa belt is one of many reaping the rewards of cleaning up the climate. Tropical forests like Ghana's are vital to the climate fight — they lock down carbon in trees and soil, ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indonesia’s largest environmental group, Walhi, has officially intervened in an environmental lawsuit filed by the government against major ...