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

Author: Philip Perry / Source: Big Think Chimpanzees in three West African countries—Guinea Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast), and Liberia, have been observed taking part in strange behavior. They store a great number of rocks in the hollows of trees. Then, usually a male, takes one of the

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0veiTgUQLKw Poor grandma. She didn’t do anything to deserve that. Sure, she’s old as shit I bet she did a few questionable things in her life that might deserve judgment from the maker. But they maker is not a chimpanzee. A chimpanzee’s place in this world is in the