Chimpanzee stone tools excavated in Taï National Park, Côte de Ivoire (Image: Gerald Newlands)
ANJANA the chimp is proving to be a doting foster mum – to her white TIGER cubs. These amazing new pictures show the motherly monkey has not been driven bananas by the playful cubs who she lovingly bottle feeds.
A new comparison of chimpanzee and human genomes has offered an early but tantalizing look into what makes the two species, nearly identical at the DNA level, so different.
Male managers act like members of the animal kingdom, particularly monkeys and chimpanzees, according to new research.
Chimpanzees may not forget a familiar face—or a behind, a new study says.
The primate intelligence is perhaps the most famed explored subject, not to mention a controversial one at that. The measure of brain magnitude used depends upon assumptions about the relative importance of different factors, and different measures.
If you have just had a big falling out with a colleague, there is nothing better than the comforting and consoling arm of a good friend.
Rather than being a precursor to sleep, yawning is designed to keep us awake, say US researchers. But why does seeing someone else yawn make you to do the same?
Juvenile chimpanzees beat adult humans in two different short-term memory tests, according to a study conducted by researchers at Kyoto University in Japan and published in the journal Current Biology.
Part of our strong curiosity about chimps and other primates is the striking similarities we hold with them.
Dr Jane Goodall, famous for her pioneering studies and passionate work on behalf of chimpanzees, thinks it's time for others to be rewarded for compassionate sceince.
Primatologists reported Thursday in the journal Science that only 66 percent of visitors to Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago thought chimps were endangered.
When pundits urged Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in February to be more feminine — to wear skirts and flashier makeup — Frans B.M. de Waal looked, as usual, to the chimpanzees outside his window at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta.
A George Washington University research team investigated the ability of chimps to make character judgements about others based on observed social interactions. They further investigated whether inferred reputation could be transferred to novel situations.
Given adequate food, fuel, and gender equality, mass conflict just might disappear.
Although chimpanzees do engage in noncostly barter, in which otherwise value-less tokens are exchanged for food, this lack of risk is not typical of human barter.
This article regarding the risks for our fellow great apes that are associated with close human contact raises a red flag.
Socially-learned cultural behaviour thought to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found.
The discovery was made in a series of experiments that compared their performance with that of Scottish children in research that once again underlines the continuity between human characteristics and those of our closest relatives.
Huckabee's rapid assent ???? Where??? Only in the minds of the illiterate does that concept take a hold....Anyone that has a computer & knows what it's true purpose is for, sees through that line of B.S. in a heart beat.
Ugandan and French scientists have for months been observing the behaviour of a group of chimpanzees whose uncanny aptitude for self-medication could help their human cousins discover new drugs.
My future book project is "Divine Primates: How Human Nature Has Gotten Us Into - And Can Help Get Us Out Of - Our Global Crises."
In a finding that could prove hard to forget, scientists have shown that chimps have better memories than people. Research shows that young chimps are blessed with photographic memories, allowing them to remember patterns and sequences with amazing accuracy.
The 93-year-old co-founder of Twycross Zoo, who was a passionate defender of exotic animals, has died. Molly Badham helped build the largest collection of primates in the world at the zoo, located on the Leicestershire-Warwickshire border.
Chimpanzees under attack exaggerate their screams to get help from higher ranking group members, researchers from Fife have discovered
German researchers have demonstrated chimpanzees make choices that protect their self-interest more consistently than do humans.