Bala Amarasekaran has never felt like running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone was truly ...

Amarasekaran first arrived in Sierra Leone at age 17 from Sri Lanka. In 1988, while travelling in the countryside with his ...

Mike Tyson's tigers, Slash's snakes, Tracy Morgan's octopus and more. However, one that stood out as being more along the ...

Tonia Haddix rose to fame after starring in the HBCO docuseries Chimp Crazy, but now fans and critics both want to know where ...

A Missouri woman who starred in the HBO documentary series “Chimp Crazy” has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after she lied that a movie star primate that she was accused of ...

The sanctuary's keepers have defiantly kept it closed since late May as a protest to spur the government into action over the ...

According to the IUCN, chimpanzees are Endangered. It is estimated that fewer than 300,000 individuals remain in the wild, ...

Extreme heat poses significant risks to pets, as they cannot regulate their body temperature as efficiently as humans. With temperatures over 90 degrees and pavements reaching 121 degrees, pets are ...

Tonia Haddix pleaded guilty in March to perjury and obstruction of justice. She was subsequently arrested last month after ...

Many New Yorkers have been surrendering their pets because they can no longer afford to keep them, outpacing animal shelters’ capacity, a shelter official said.

For the first time in its history, the Animal Care Centers of NYC is taking care of 1,000 shelter animals at one time and won’t be able to take in any more pets, the agency said Saturday ...

HBO star Tonia Haddix was arrested over the weekend in Missouri, weeks after officials found she had hidden another ape in her basement.