In 2009, the city of Stamford made headlines when Travis, a chimpanzee, assaulted a woman — severing multiple body parts including her fingers, eyes, nose and lips. The incident left Charla Nash, 55 ...

Tonia Haddix is at the center of yearslong controversy over her ownership of Tonka, a chimpanzee who starred in Hollywood movies Emily Krauser is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at ...

Tonia Haddix’s passion for chimpanzees is the subject of Max’s Chimp Crazy docuseries, but she doesn’t feel it is accurate. “As far as overall, the documentary, I just feel like that it’s really ...

One of the first television shows I can remember seeing was “The Hathaways,” an early ’60s sitcom, starring Peggy Cass and Jack Weston, about a suburban couple and their three chimpanzees. Back in the ...

The filmmaker expected his subject to be angry. To cry or scream, curse him out. He had, after all, betrayed her. For two years, Eric Goode, the producer behind the mega-hit “Tiger King,” had ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO has acquired all U.S. rights to the documentary "Project Nim," ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Sundance Film Festival Thursday. Directed by ...

A Sunrise Beach woman was sentenced to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release for repeatedly lying and concealing her chimpanzees, according to the Office of the United States ...

Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees whose work was captured in more than 40 documentaries, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. She was 91. The Jane Goodall institute issued a statement ...