To many people’s surprise, hunting and eating meat is a regular part of wild chimpanzee life. Chimps' hunting varies between groups: group size, other animals present, and nearby plant food play a ...

The same is true of Beryl, a chimpanzee living in Kibale National Park, in Uganda, and her young daughter, Lindsay. When ...

Contagious behaviors are actions that can be sparked by the detection of that action in another individual. Yawning is ...

Chimps are amazingly adaptable. Unlike other nonhuman primates, they live in a variety of habitats and have developed different behaviors to thrive in them. A recent study now shows that chimps also ...

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savanna habitats, some of which may ...

To measure nut cracking ability in chimps, the research team broke it down into five types of ability: how long it took, number of strikes per nut, success rate, number of times a strike moved a ...

ild chimpanzees inhabit various environments in Africa, from dense tropical rainforests to more open woodland and savannah areas. And these close cousins of our species, according to new research ...

For Australian director Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman), this deeply surreal scenario remains natural territory ... plausible that this wide-eyed boy chimp is immersed in a human world ...

A new survey finds that populations of forest elephants, lowland gorillas and chimpanzees have remained relatively stable in a large landscape in southeastern Cameroon. In some cases, populations ...