Heart-warming moment Vanilla the chimp, 29, explodes with joy when she sees the sky for the first time after being caged her entire life. ... 'My energy and mental clarity are through the roof!' ...

A heartwarming video of a chimpanzee reuniting with his human foster parents has gone viral after the Zoological Wildlife Foundation of Miami shared the clip last month.

The chimp climbed on top of the neighbor's roof. Paolone said he ran home to grab a small bushel of bananas and lured the chimp back to its cage, one banana at a time.

Ms Butor's mother Madeleine and Ferre adopted the female chimp in 1960 and treated her as their favourite daughter. It could do no wrong in their eyes, she writes in How Could I Forget? Madeleine ...

So Chimp Haven is now running extreme-weather practice drills to teach the chimps ... an animal care specialist, climbed onto the roof of a low-slung, concrete building. From this rooftop ...

A chimpanzee at Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands used a long stick to take down a drone that was flying near the animals. The drone was destroyed but the camera continued filming.