In recent years, scientists have shown that chimpanzees favor certain peers by picking whom they prefer to groom and ...

Scientists have identified dozens of previously overlooked cultural behaviors in wild chimpanzees, suggesting that the great ape's culture extends far beyond complex skills like tool use. In a single ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers sometimes continue to carry their infants after they have died, a behavior known as infant corpse carrying (ICC). It is widely documented, and many explanations have been ...

Friendship, it turns out, may run deeper in chimpanzees than a simple preference for grooming partners. A new study from the University of California, Berkeley has found that chimpanzees steal less ...

Chimpanzees living in a sanctuary in Africa have developed a “fashion trend” for dangling blades of grass or sticks from their ear holes and their behinds, a new study shows. In 2010, researchers ...

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

Chimpanzees are one of our closest relatives and their lives are in peril because of human intrusions into their homes and lives. A new book edited by chimpanzee experts Drs. Lydia Hopper, Assistant ...

Jane Goodall always remembered the first time a wild chimpanzee took a banana from her outstretched hand. In that moment, she would often say, the chimp—a grizzled male she had dubbed David ...

Learn how comparing aggression in chimpanzees and bonobos challenges the long-held belief that chimpanzees are the more violent of our closest ape relatives. For years, chimpanzees and bonobos have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walking through the savanna-woodland landscape of Boé National Park, Guinea-Bissau, you might encounter a tree covered in gnarled ...