" (Deforestation) is really threatening the sanctuary's existence, because it's too dangerous when people come close to a ...

The sanctuary's keepers have defiantly kept it closed since late May as a protest to spur the government into action over the ...

Amarasekaran first arrived in Sierra Leone at age 17 from Sri Lanka. In 1988, while travelling in the countryside with his ...

Julian Hilgers/dpa-tmn© DPA International Baby chimpanzee and surrogate mother here in Sierra Leone where a project saves the animals. Julian Hilgers/dpa-tmn© DPA International ...

Rainforest chimpanzees are digging wells for cleaner water after apparently learning the skill from an immigrant female chimpanzee. Research by the University of Kent and the University of St Andrews ...

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees and humans last shared a common ancestor around 6 million years ago. “Our ability to produce ...

Chimpanzees drum and make calls to communicate. Two new studies have found they drum to send message across large distances and can create complex vocalizations. Photograph By Ronan Donovan ...

Stone "hammers" uncovered in the rainforests of the Ivory Coast are the first prehistoric evidence of chimpanzee technology, a University of Calgary archeologist says. Julio Mercader and co ...

Bala Amarasekaran has never felt like running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone was truly ...

Stone "hammers" uncovered in the rainforests of the Ivory Coast are the first prehistoric evidence of chimpanzee technology, a University of Calgary archeologist says. Julio Mercader and co ...