Tampa, Florida -- Five-month-old chimpanzee Keeva has learned a lot in her young life. She can laugh, reach out and grasp objects, stand upright while holding on, hang briefly from a tree branch or ...

Bala Amarasekaran has never felt like running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone was truly work, having come to his calling only after several unexpected twists of ...

Esther and Rio, two orphaned baby chimpanzees, clung tenderly to their caregiver's chest at a sanctuary inside one of Sierra Leone's flagship national parks, where unprecedented deforestation and ...

There's nothing more touching to see than a new mom bonding with her newborn. Whether it's an adult or animal, mom instincts kick in immediately most of the time, and you can see and feel the love ...

Baby chimpanzees are some of the cutest babies in the animal kingdom. Newborns are only around 4 pounds at birth, which is smaller than most human babies. Baby chimps live in family groups in the ...

The Detroit Zoo recently welcomed a new arrival, a healthy baby chimpanzee. The infant primate, a female, was born July 4 at the zoo in Royal Oak, according to zoo officials. "It was a remarkable way ...

Visitors to Lion Country Safari can witness the chimps any time they visit the park, about 2 miles north of Southern Boulevard west of State Road 7. It's open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. most days. For details, ...

The world is full of adorable baby animals -- tigers, polar bears, chimps, kittens, hedgehogs -- but walruses don't always necessarily fit into that category. They're fat, sort of slimy, terrible at ...

Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary has become the Sierra Leone's leading ecotourism destination and a model for environmental conservation in west Africa. Founder and director Bala Amarasekaran at the ...