What began as a woman raising a baby chimpanzee like her own child eventually turned into one of the most horrifying animal ...

“I was amazed that I was still alive,” Charla Nash said about the gruesome 2009 attack Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's ...

A once large and peaceful group of chimpanzees in the western forests of Uganda has now split into two, causing a rare “civil war” among the primates.

For years, two sets of chimpanzees lived as one in Uganda’s Kibale National Park — grooming, interacting and patrolling their territory in a cohesive community. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

The once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees have been at loggerheads for the last eight years.

Chimpanzees are one of the closest relatives to humans, but they are also significantly stronger, with some estimates suggesting several times the strength of an average person. Living in complex ...

Chimpanzees in western Uganda have turned on each other in an unusual and deadly conflict, after one community split into ...