Animals are way smarter than we might actually imagine, be it chimpanzees making tools like mini engineers, parrots talking like pros, or crows filling up pots with stones to drink water. Intelligence ...

Over the last four months, the L.A. Zoo has welcomed the birth of five great apes, including a gorilla, orangutan and three ...

A new study finds how monogamous humans are in the mammal family. In a list ranking the monogamy of mammals, humans stood at ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

THERE have been many exciting developments at Colchester Zoo throughout the year but there have also been some sad losses.

Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number ...

In a " Christmas gift " to visitors, Chester Zoo has launched December return tickets which allow some people to return for ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

The L.A. Zoo recently welcomed five baby great apes: three chimps, one orangutan and a gorilla. The breeding process can be lengthy and includes tactics like taking primates off birth control and ...

Human pair bonding is more comparable to exclusive mating seen in meerkats and beavers than in our primate cousins ...

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in groups where only one female breeds,” he explained. “Whereas humans live in ...