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

Before Dian Fossey met her tragic fate, she came face to face with some of humankind’s closest nonhuman relatives.

Sri Lanka’s cultural capital of Kandy will step into the global scientific spotlight from Oct. 1 to 4, 2026, as it hosts the ...

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 ...

Lindsay Oliver’s new book takes readers behind the doors of a primate research facility, offering valuable and surprising ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers display a remarkable yet haunting behavior in the animal kingdom: they carry their deceased ...

Do parrots pun, do jaguars jest? Maddy Chapman reveals what science has to say about the animal kingdom’s jokesters.

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

Researchers discover why marmoset brains remain smooth, revealing how progenitor cell timing alters primate cortical folding.

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

The study is about the behavior of great apes and doesn't prove that hugging automatically resolves human conflict. However, ...

Toxoplasma gondii has one heckin' reputation. This single-celled parasite has gone down in infamy for its putative ability to subtly influence the behavior of its hosts in ways that will help it reach ...