In recent years, scientists have shown that chimpanzees favor certain peers by picking whom they prefer to groom and ...
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 ...
Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers have been observed carrying their deceased infants on their backs for years. Why does this ...
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 ...
Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers display a remarkable yet haunting behavior in the animal kingdom: they carry their deceased ...
A study has found that young chimpanzees develop distinct population-specific vocal patterns as they mature (ontogeny), challenging the long-held assumption that their calls are inflexible and ...
Camera traps in Senegal caught chimpanzee tool use passing from mother to daughter, and a juvenile helping an infant crack ...
Chimpanzees are handy with tools. They’re known to use sticks to “fish” for ants and algae, make sponges from moss or leaves, and fashion simple spears for hunting. But exactly how the animals pick up ...
Before Dian Fossey met her tragic fate, she came face to face with some of humankind’s closest nonhuman relatives.
It’s true that male chimpanzees form typically linear dominance relationships, where one submits to another, all the way to ...
Researchers discover why marmoset brains remain smooth, revealing how progenitor cell timing alters primate cortical folding.