EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but won’t stop it
14 June 2018
The European Union will make only minor tweaks to “renewable” energy policies that are actually increasing greenhouse gas emissions and driving deforestation
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Chimp evolution was shaped by sex with their bonobo relatives
24 May 2018
Some chimpanzee populations gained useful DNA from interbreeding with bonobos, and one may even have become more gentle and “bonobo-like” in its brain structure and behaviour
Ape ‘midwives’ spotted helping female bonobos give birth
18 May 2018
When female bonobos went into labour, other females gathered around to keep them safe, swatting away flies and even seemingly trying to catch the baby as it emerged
Bonobos barely use their opposable thumbs when climbing trees
4 May 2018
Apes and humans are famed for their opposable thumbs, but our close cousins the bonobos regularly swing through trees without using their thumbs
Advertising campaign for monkeys uses sex to sell brands
27 February 2018
Everyone knows that in advertising sex sells, and it turns out that sex-themed adverts even work on rhesus macaques
We thought gorillas only walked on their knuckles. We were wrong
16 February 2018
Modern gorillas can walk in a variety of styles, not just the famous “knuckle-walking”, suggesting our common ancestor was similarly resourceful
People are slaughtering orangutans and wiping them out
15 February 2018
The population of Bornean orangutans fell by almost half in just 16 years, and it was not a sad by-product of deforestation: many apes were killed deliberately
Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk
25 January 2018
The deaths of five Ugandan chimpanzees have been traced to a human cold virus, and DNA tests suggest all African chimps are vulnerable
Low-ranked female monkeys band together against their leaders
26 August 2017
Female rhesus macaques have a strict hierarchy, but the subordinates can buck authority and even climb the social ladder if they’re big enough and have enough friends
Primate brains react differently to faces of friends and VIPs
10 August 2017
Two newly identified brain areas reveal how rhesus macaques recognise the difference between intimately familiar faces and faces that the monkeys know less well
