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

Dolphins, it turns out, don’t like to mix business and pleasure. Scientists have found that the marine mammals keep their ...

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

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 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.

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

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 ...

Camera traps in Senegal caught chimpanzee tool use passing from mother to daughter, and a juvenile helping an infant crack ...

Chimpanzees apparently can help their young learn to use tools. Researchers have observed wild chimpanzees in Senegal giving ...