In 2005, a chimpanzee named Tico arrived at a rescue center in Spain. The details of his early life were vague: he’d been found roaming in the mountains before being moved to a zoo that eventually closed. “[But] we knew that he had arrived illegally from an African country,” writes the center, Fundacion Mona. Through […]
The first catalogue of chimpanzee genomic diversity in the wild gives insight into their past, and could help return illegally traded chimps back home.