STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- A 200-pound pet chimpanzee attacked a Connecticut woman, leaving her with life-threatening injuries, officials said.
CHICAGO, June 12 (UPI) -- A chimpanzee at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo is set to celebrate his 50th birthday while on public view for the first time in four years, zoo officials said.
LONDON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- An escaped chimpanzee known as a "bit of a thug" was shot and killed at Whipsnade Zoo in England.
VIENNA, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- An Austrian provincial court appeal to declare a chimp named Matthew "Hiasl" Pan a person has been turned down.
OSAKA, Japan, April 17 (UPI) -- A chimpanzee at a Japanese zoo enjoyed a few minutes of freedom before being shot with a tranquilizer gun.
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., July 25 (UPI) -- A chimpanzee emulating Tarzan's buddy, Cheetah, was spotted in a Thousand Oaks, Calif., neighborhood.
ROYAL, Neb., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Three chimpanzees were shot and killed by the director of Zoo Nebraska after they escaped from their cage.
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa, April 22 (UPI) -- A chimpanzee in a South African zoo has picked up a bad habit from watching the humans around him -- smoking cigarettes.
ZHENGZHOU, China, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A sexually frustrated chimpanzee at a Chinese zoo has taken to smoking cigarettes and occasionally spitting, China's official Xinhua news agency reports.
BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Maryland scientists have posted the first draft version of a chimpanzee's genome sequence and its alignment with the human genome on free public databases.
