Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

Saturday Night Live is no longer a chimp-friendly set. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One thing that comes to mind is one time I ...

A female chimpanzee escaped her enclosure at the Indianapolis Zoo on Friday morning, prompting a lockdown and swift emergency response from zoo staff. The incident occurred at around 10 a.m. on Nov.

Nov. 14 (UPI) --Visitors to the Indianapolis Zoo on Friday morning were asked to shelter in place after a chimpanzee got loose from its enclosure for an adventure around the park. A female chimpanzee ...

Like most others who heard the tragic news, I was saddened to learn that five monkeys were shot and killed by sheriffs last week, and two others shot by area residents this week, when they escaped a ...

Customers at a Spirit Halloween in Plano were shocked to see a monkey hanging from the rafters of a Spirit Halloween on the night of Monday, Oct. 27. No, it was not a part of Spirit Halloween’s ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Bound, sedated and stuffed into bags: Poachers are ripping baby ...

A New Jersey man was sentenced to four years in federal prison for creating and distributing videos showing monkeys being tortured and abused, prosecutors said Tuesday. Giancarlo Morelli, of Wharton, ...

In 2014, University of California, Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley wrote a book called The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol. His controversial “drunken monkey hypothesis” proposed that ...

When chimpanzees eat ripe figs and other fruits in the wild, it’s a surprisingly boozy feast—the fruit they consume in a day contains the equivalent of a couple of adult beverages. That’s the upshot ...

Adult female spider monkey Patty and one of four young spider monkeys who arrived at Saint Louis Zoo in spring 2025 after they were confiscated near the U.S. southern border walk through a tunnel at ...

Tonia Haddix leaves the Thomas F. Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis after entering guilty pleas on March 31, 2025 to two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for falsely ...