The attorneys for two primates being held in cages at Stony Brook University on Long Island in the US want them freed from medical experiments.
A research team from the UK has compiled a "dictionary" of chimpanzee body language, where certain gestures mean certain things.
Steven M Wise is campaigning for chimps’ right to seek freedom from unlawful detention on the grounds that they are essentially people.
There comes a time in some men’s lives when the days seem darker and the only sensible response is to blow their life savings on a sports car.
Two chimpanzees who mauled a US student in SA will not be killed because authorities found the animals defended their territory against a trespasser.
The US student attacked by the chimpanzees he was studying remains sedated after six hours of surgery to clean his wounds and deal with his injuries.
The two male chimpanzee which attacked a US researcher at the Chimp Eden rehabilitation centre in Mpumalanga last week will not be euthanised.