The kidnappers are holding the animals, aged between two and five, hostage and demanding a six-figure ransom.
Banksy’s painting, ‘Devolved Parliament’, sold for even more than his last work to go to auction, ‘Girl with Balloon’.
Because it’s Friday, and the end of the day is within sight, please enjoy this video of a chimp using Instagram.
Limpani the chimpanzee was raised by a human couple for the first few months of his life. He was rather chuffed to be reunited with them.
Back in the 60s Jane Goodall began studying chimpanzees in the wild. Now, more than 50 years later, unseen footage has been mashed up into this tell-all documentary.
Researchers in Japan have finally solved the question that has been on everyone’s minds for years – can chimps master this popular game? Hell yeah.
There’s a chimpanzee who has been trained to light a cigarette, but to see him you will have to go to the Pyongyang zoo in North Korea.Unless PETA get there first.
We know that Saturday mornings after a big one can be a little hairy but you haven’t come close to these apes in Guinea. To the watering hole.
News coverage last year was all about the Ebola and the humans, and not enough about the other victims – the gorillas and chimps of Africa. Ebola is making them closer to extinction than we realised.
It’s great to have a pet. But if you’re lacking in space, just settle for a few fish in a round bowl. There’s no need to be keeping large animals in tiny spaces, ever.
Scientists have acknowledged that it’s not just us humans that suffer from midlife crises – apes do too. Except the apes might not go out and buy a Harley, or take up golf on their own accord.
Last week, a young American graduate student who was leading a tour at the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden, Nelspruit, was pulled into the chimps’ enclosure by two alpha males after entering a restricted area. He was brutally assaulted and suffered multiple injuries that left him in critical condition fighting for his life.
Here’s a fact about that hamburger patty on your Maccy D’s burger: it does not come from a singular cow named Bessie. Instead, the likelihood of her meat, along with 20 other of her friends all ground up together and pressed into a patty is pretty strong. There’s also the possibility that the butcher might have used chimp meat.