Troy Kotsur attends the Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2023. He stars in the new horror film "Primate." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Oct. 16 (UPI) --A family's pet ...

Rabies apparently makes apes smarter and the humans it’s mauling dumber.

Tonia Haddix, the woman at the center of the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary series “Chimp Crazy,” has been sentenced to 46 months in prison after faking the death of a chimpanzee to avoid turning him ...

Tonia Haddix, the star of HBO’s 2024 docuseries “Chimp Crazy,” was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison on Thursday in a case related to her lies about the death of her celebrity pet chimpanzee, ...

The new HBO documentary Chimp Crazy, from the same team that brought Tiger King to Netflix, tells the shocking story of Tonia Haddix, a former nurse-turned-exotic animal broker in the United States, ...

Cinematic qualities aside, “Chimp Crazy” is going to set some viewers’ teeth on edge from the very beginning and for very good reason. On the one hand, it is about interspecies devotion, affection and ...

The past year has been a really good one for horror fans, with the genre taking up several spots in our list of best movies of 2025 with options like Sinners and Weapons. Even the scardiest of cats ...

The filmmakers behind Netflix’s pandemic sensation “Tiger King” have returned to tell another story of domesticated animals. This time, Tonia Haddix and her 32-year-old former Hollywood chimp Tonka ...

The woman at the center of HBO’s docuseries Chimp Crazy is still on the hook for nearly $240,000 after she faked the death of her pet chimpanzee Tonka, as PETA is urging a judge to consider bringing ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...