Researcher and prolific science communicator who laid bare the social lives of apes. Researcher and prolific science communicator who laid bare the social lives of apes.
Frans de Waal, who explored empathy among apes, dies at 75 pressherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Frans de Waal was just starting his career in primate research in the mid-1970s when he watched a male chimpanzee aggressively confront another at a zoo enclosure in the Netherlands. Awhile later, the chimp calmed down and held his palm up, a gesture of reconciliation. The two chimps hugged. The moment sparked a lifetime exploration, […]
Listen to Your Inner Ape, a one-man show, produced by the Drum Tower West Theater in downtown Beijing, has been enthralling thousands of theatergoers and non-theatergoers over the last few months.