An exhibit of streams, dams, earth mounds and dens houses male Mexican gray wolves. See dominant male gorillas JoJo and Kwan, their families and two groups of chimpanzees in an exhibit space that boasts three outdoor habitats for a total of 24 apes

Dogs Get Gestures as Well as Toddlers - Discovery News
July 13, 2009 — Dogs possess a two-year-old child’s capacity to understand human pointing gestures, with dogs requiring next to zero learning time to figure out the visual communication, according to two recent studies. The comparison with kids

Outsmarted: humans and apes share many genes, but the way we use them is ‘like swapping a rifle for a machine gun’ Photo: FOX/GETTY About 50 years ago, something happened that radically changed our ideas about what it meant to be human. A young

‘Bones’ star seeks ape sanctuary support - United Press International
WASHINGTON, June 28 (UPI) — A TV actress who plays a forensic anthropologist asked U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman , D-Calif., to support a bill that would phase out some experiments on chimpanzees. The Great Ape Protection Act, introduced recently in the