The bonobo, a boy, was named after Don Winstel, who worked at the zoo for more than 36 years before retiring as the assistant director.

Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, was once caged in a lab facility in New York. After being freed, she sees the sky for the first time in Florida.

This baby otter orphan was found alone in a river in Cecil County, Maryland. Taken in by the Maryland Zoo, she's now being ...

Jane Goodall, whose lifelong work as a primatologist helped broaden the world’s understanding of animal behavior and emotions, has died, her institute said Wednesday. She was 91.

Chimps are close genetic relatives to humans, with facial expressions, gestures, vocalizations. They live to 50 or more.

The Los Angeles Zoo announced Thursday that its chimpanzee troop has welcomed two healthy baby girls — the first chimps born at the zoo in more than a decade. The infants and their moms, Yoshi and ...

Meet Nakili! She's the two-month-old chimpanzee at the Detroit Zoo. (Detroit Zoo) ROYAL OAK, Mich. – The Detroit Zoo announced the name of its 2-month-old chimpanzee. The baby chimpanzee has been ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

ROYAL OAK, MI - She has a name! Meet Nakili, (pronounced (Nah-key-lee), which means “a copy” or “to copy” in Swahili. She was recently born at the Detroit Zoo. Nakili was born to 34-year old Nyani, ...

The Detroit Zoo named a two-month-old baby girl chimpanzee Her name means "to copy" in Swahili, as she is just like her mother. Visitors can potentially see the baby chimp at zoo, but she may be ...

(WXYZ) — The baby chimpanzee born at the Detroit Zoo on the Fourth of July has been named Nakili, the zoo announced on Monday. According to the zoo, the name was ...

Six orphaned gray foxes were found and cared for at the Wildlife Care Center in Saratoga for the last four months before being released back into the wild at Alum Rock Park in San Jose on Aug. 20.