Two chimpanzees have given birth over the last couple of weeks at the Los Angeles Zoo. The mothers and newborn girls are doing well, and visitors can see the baby chimps through viewing times that are ...

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It’s big news at the Los Angeles Zoo on Thursday, Sept. 25, where officials unveiled a tiny chimp girl born to 35-year-old female chimpanzee Yoshi and 26-year-old male Pu’iwa on Aug. 20, and another ...

Female chimpanzees that forge strong, grooming-rich friendships with other females dramatically boost their infants’ odds of making it past the perilous first year—no kin required. Three decades of ...