"Humans and chimpanzees share 98% of their DNA" is one of the most widely repeated statistics in popular science — and it's also one of the most widely misunderstood....
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Few animal facts get repeated as confidently, and as inaccurately, as the claim that chimpanzees are five, eight, or even ten times stronger than humans. The real,...
START READINGYes — a chimpanzee is an ape. It's a simple question with a simple answer, but the confusion around it is common enough to be worth unpacking properly, since "ape" is a...
START READINGIt's one of the most common mix-ups in casual wildlife talk: calling a chimpanzee a monkey. It's an easy mistake to make, but chimpanzees and monkeys belong to genuinely...
START READINGA wildlife corridor is a strip of connected habitat — often replanted forest along a river or valley — that links two otherwise separated patches of natural habitat,...
START READINGAs roads expand into and through remaining forest habitat, they create a specific, measurable danger for wild chimpanzee populations — one that's easy to overlook...
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