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Amazing video shows a mom chimp medicating her child's wound with insectsThe discovery adds to a growing debate about animal empathy.
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Monkey 'queen' led a violent coup to become her troop's first female leader. Now her reign is in jeopardy.A young female macaque fought her own mother to seize control of her troop for the first time in 70 years. Now her reign is in jeopardy.
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Which animals have the longest arms?Of all the living animals in the world, these are the ones with the longest arms, relative to body size.
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'Lost extinction,' uncovered for the first time, claimed more than 60% of Africa's primatesMore than half of the species in five mammal groups went extinct in Africa about 34 million years ago, scientists recently discovered.
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Leprosy identified in wild chimpanzees for the first timeLeprosy, a disease that was previously unknown in non-human primates in the wild, has been detected in two unconnected populations of chimpanzees in West Africa.
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Which animals sing?It's often assumed that birds are the only animals that sing. But these other divas of the animal kingdom prove otherwise.
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Why do primates carry around dead infants?In a new analysis, researchers compared hundreds of such cases across primate species.
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Chimps use 'hi' and 'bye' greetings, just like humansHumans aren't the only species that show "hello" and "goodbye" behaviors.
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Chimpanzee troop beats and kills infant gorillas in unprecedented clash (Video)Researchers have documented chimpanzees killing gorillas for the first time. The two fatal attacks were caught on film at a national park in Gabon, Central Africa.
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