For wounded chimpanzees, help sometimes comes in the form of first aid — care rendered not by humans but by other chimps. New research reveals the nature and prevalence of these rarely witnessed ...

Chimpanzees comfort each other when in distress, despite typically being referred to as "violent" and "despotic" when compared to other apes. Researchers at Durham University found that ...

Chimpanzees comfort each other when in distress, despite typically being referred to as "violent" and "despotic" when compared to other apes. Researchers at Durham University found that ...

The apes’ calls start early with low, rolling “pant-hoots” that ripple through the canopy. On some days the chimps are close by.

An adult female chimpanzee cracks an oil palm nut with a stone hammer and anvil while her infant son looks at the camera. Some chimpanzees appear to be more skilled nutcrackers than others.

And rehabilitating chimps like Eli and Susie means helping them find their place among other apes. In the wild, chimps live in large, dynamic social groups and remain reliant on their mothers for ...

Most chimpanzee populations do not use a complex set of tools, in a specific sequence, to extract food. But some regularly do. And these groups are likely to be genetically related.

It was a rainy morning at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, and at the chimpanzee exhibit, it was the children who were hooting and hollering. The apes themselves were placid, ignoring their rowdy ...

Chimpanzees are show-offs! Apes perform better on tricky computer tasks when they have an audience, study finds READ MORE: Chimps can SPEAK, scientists claim after reviewing old footage ...

Herbert Terrace, a psychologist known for his work with chimpanzee Nim Chimpsky, argued that perceived communication from apes was prompted by their handlers. In a 2019 Psychology Today blog, he ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are amazingly similar to us—and each other: The two species of great ape have genomes that are nearly the same as ours, and they resemble each other to the point that ...

THE chilling legend of the Bondo Ape has plagued researchers for decades with Congo’s Bigfoot still a mystery. Terrifying tales describe the giant primates as a hybrid of a gorilla and human … ...