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Following decades of hunting and habitat destruction by humans, great apes are teetering on the edge of extinction.

Join the National Museum of Natural History for programs on asteroid samples, fossils and chimpanzees

Research on the Ngogo community in Uganda reveals that humans humans aren’t the only primates with long post-fertile life stage. A team of researchers has been studying the Ngogo community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park for over twenty years. Their recent publication in the jo

Female humans and some whales aren't the only mammals to go through menopause. A new study finds wild chimpanzees do, too.

<p>A team of researchers studying the Ngogo community of wild chimpanzees in western Uganda’s Kibale National Park for two decades has published <a href="http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add5473" target="_blank">a report in Science</a> showing that females in this population can experience menopause and postreproductive survival.</p>

A study of the Ngogo community in Uganda shows humans aren’t the only primates with menopause and significant post-fertile survival.

University of Arizona primatologist Jacob Negrey co-authored a study of the Ngogo community in Uganda that shows humans aren't the only primates with a long post-fertile life stage.

Yale’s David Watts, who has studied Uganda’s Ngogo chimpanzees for decades, describes the strengths and shortcomings of Netflix’s popular “Chimp Empire.”

James Reed, director of Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher, on his new natural history series Chimp Empire.

Kyoto University is shuttering its Primate Research Institute after its director was dismissed for misuse of funding.