Veronika’s improvised grooming device has caused great surprise – but that tells us more about humans than cows, says science writer Helen Pilcher ...

This suggests the common enemy effect dates back 5–6 million years to our shared ancestors, but bonobos evolved to suppress lethal aggression. As the only great apes that don’t kill their own species, ...

Nothing brings a group of primates together, humans included, quite like a threat from outside. Bonobos are unique among ...

Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of aggression.

At some point in your life you might have seen animals groom each other. This is something very common in chimpanzees, for example. Thanks to decades of work by primatologist Dr. Richard Wrangham and ...

Across forests, oceans and city edges, wild animals live under constant pressure from stronger rivals, scarce resources and ...

Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social ...

The family chimp turns rabid, but always seems like a real animal, in Johannes Roberts' slickly executed piece of slaughterhouse schlock. It’s a trash premise, but the film’s director, Johannes ...

Kicking off the 2026 horror lineup. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We’re dealing with a violent chimpanzee in Primate, as a ...

Primate is such a cruel little movie that it occasionally flirts with crossing the line from dumb January fun to grim exploitation. Its premise is simple: A beloved family chimpanzee, Ben (played by ...

The first movie out of the gate for 2026, Paramount‘s Primate, is not a very encouraging start for the year, nor is it a good start for the first full year Skydance has been in charge of one of ...