Experts in neuroscience help us understand why the human brain is a marvel of structure and function. This video looks at the different areas of the brain. The hippocampus which helps us to form memories, learn and have emotions. The...

Funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the television series, The Human Spark, engages host Alan Alda with dozens of scientists across three continents to get at the sources of human uniqueness through the lenses of...

Taking a look at all the animals, birds and fish at the zoo.<br/>
Animals, Birds & Fish, Part 1

Ham was a special chimp. He was the first hominid in space, beating all humans to that acolade. But did his mission go smoothly? Or is his story a tale of survival against all odds?

Ham was a special chimp. He was the first hominid in space, beating all humans to that acolade. But did his mission go smoothly? Or is his story a tale of survival against all odds?

Camels can go for a month without food. But do they know how to cook spaghetti? Squirrels store up nuts and seeds for the winter. But can they whip up salad dressing? Bears eat fish, nuts, berries, and honey. But do they know how to fry...

Chimp Haven

ChangeMakers Jenny Desmond – The Sanctuary for Chimpanzee Rescue

Data from Landsat satellites, a joint mission of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, have been critical to helping the Jane Goodall Institute in their work to protect chimpanzees and their habitat. In this video, Goodall and...

One Good Thing: Chimp Sees Sunlight for First Time

Vanilla the chimpanzee, born at New York University's infamous LEMSIP laboratory, has lived in cages and enclosures for all 28 years of her life. That is, until she recently stepped into the sunshine at the Save the Chimps sanctuary and...

The Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary is a safe haven for orphaned, rescued and abused chimpanzees across Sierra Leone. But the sanctuary and its inhabitants are under threat from illegal land grabs that diminish the rainforest.

The findings now raise the possibility that the human capacity for rhythm—and by extension, music and language—may be deeply rooted in our evolutionary past.

Natural Sound

A group of geologists and paleo-anthropologists has unveiled the skeletal remains of what they claim could be man's oldest ances
tor.
At a press conference in Paris on Tuesday, the...

AP Television

Edinburgh - 22 December
2008
1. Wide shots of Edi
nburgh Zoo
2. Close of winte
r robin (bird)
>3. Mid of zoo signs
4. Wide of...

11 mins 30 secs (English synch: 0 mins 58 secs)

Today's best-known chimpanzees, seen in fe
ature
films and advertising films, have their home
in a small
zoo outside Johannesburg. Owner
Jack Seale...

HEADLINE: Protest outside NY Post over cartoon

CAPTION: Some 200 demonstrators marched in front of the New York Post Thursday to protest a newspaper cartoon that critics say compares President Barack Obama to the chimpanzee that...

Initial results on two potential Ebola vaccines are expected by the end of the year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Tuesday.

Dr Marie Paule Kieny, an assistant director general for the WHO,...

Chimp Haven has housed and helped hundreds of apes that are no longer needed in medical research.

Saving Sierra Leone's chimps