The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Peony had arthritis and was very old, so she could barely move. She would try to climb into a climbing frame where a bunch of chimps were s...

Mandrill Chapter 10 Japanese macaque page 154: female assisted by a male to whom she grants privileges . In The Serpent's Promis...

Ed Yong has the story : It didn't arise out of nowhere, but gradually developed over 10-16 million years of evolution by exaggerating th...

In an opinion piece on the consequences of "our ongoing inability to see animals outside our own fraught frame of reference", Ch...

Ben Beck ...once noted that if you give a screw-driver to a chimpanzee it will try to use the tool for everything except its intended purpos...

...is the estimated number of mountain gorillas still living in the wild. Of these, about 302 are thought to be in Bwindi Impenetrable Natio...

Eastern Congo is home to almost a third of the world’s last 700 wild mountain gorillas...Now, there are no trained rangers to protect them. ...

If the mammal face is an instrument for communication, the primate face is a Stradivarius. -- Karl Zimmer on the study of the face and co...

'Peaceful' bonobos have been observed hunting: they may corner and feast on a still-living duiker, tearing out and eating its guts ...

Fisheries in which individuals (or groups of) fishermen have a right to a share can provide incentives for sustainable harvest that is less...