Ten chimpanzees are retiring to Florida. The chimps rescued from a laboratory in New Mexico will be arriving Wednesday to the Save the Chimps facility west of Fort Pierce. ...more

December 16, 2009

Recently in Stamford, Conn., a chimpanzee named Travis was shot and killed after he mauled a friend of his owner. The chimpanzee lived with a widow, eating lobster and ice cream at the table, wearing human clothes and entertaining himself with a computer and television. ...more

March 2, 2009

Feel free to unleash these warm, delicious infomuffins at your New Year's Eve party. ...more

December 22, 2008

The primates knew something special was happening long before the zookeepers began tossing them their holiday presents. ...more

December 20, 2008

Spectators gathered early for Presents for Primates, Lowry Park Zoo's annual holiday showcase featuring gifts from the zoo's docents. ...more

December 19, 2008

If you sat down an infinite number of chimpanzees in front of an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite period of time along with Frances Earl, one of them would sooner or later accidently type a line that contained some sort of statement of fact or truth; but it wouldn't be Frances! She would still be pounding out line after line of partisan lies, distortions and slander. ...more

September 30, 2008

Countering the prevailing theory that aging is the accumulation of wear and tear in cells, scientists studying worms have found that aging might be hard-wired, a sort of unintentional sabotage by genes gone wild. ...more

July 26, 2008

SPACE CHIMPS If you're old enough to read this review, you aren't the target audience for "Space Chimps," a movie about chimpanzees sent in search of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. "Chimps," from the animation studio that gave us "Valiant," is more one of those cartoons parents at least won't mind sitting through while little Miss or Mister 8-and-younger gets his or her chuckles at the cute-talking primates. ...more

July 17, 2008

They call it a demon of the jungle. But it soon may leave the cover of darkness and hunt its prey elsewhere, out from under the dense forests of sub-Saharan Africa. ...more

January 6, 2008

Science fiction writers have suggested a future Earth populated by a blend of all races into a common human form. In real life, the reverse seems to be happening. ...more

December 21, 2007