Chimps are the poster children for tool use in animals after their remarkable behavior was first recorded by the late, great ...

Specifically, adult chimps deliberately model the behavior, then turn their tools over to the youngsters so they can mimic ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison University expected to find risky behavior to peak in adolescence in a study of ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers have been observed carrying their deceased infants on their backs for years. Why does this ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University Anthropology Professor Jill Pruetz long suspected that man-made changes influenced the aggressive behavior researchers have observed among chimpanzees. However, her ...

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Scientists conducted largest ever genetic analysis of geologically and ecologically diverse group of chimpanzees. Chimps are amazingly adaptable. Unlike other nonhuman primates, they live in a variety ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers sometimes continue to carry their infants after they have died, a behavior known as infant ...

Is there anything more human than gathering in groups to share food and partake in a fermented beverage or two (or three, or….)? Researchers have caught wild chimpanzees on camera engaging in what ...