Hate waiting in line for the bathroom? Chimpanzees have a social solution: Go all at once. A new study shows that peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, making it “the first study to investigate ...

For chimpanzees, the need to pee appears to be contagious. A study published January 20 in the journal Current Biology finds that when one chimpanzee urinates, the others in a group are more ...

The study in 20 captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Japan shows that, when one chimp pees, others are more likely to follow. “In humans, urinating together can be seen as a ...

Some researchers have suggested that the gestures of other great apes — the primate family that includes chimps, bonobos, orangutans, gorillas and humans — are a fixed part of the species ...

Japanese scientists have discovered that chimpanzees are more likely to urinate ... “nonhuman animals” have long been believed to ape each other’s peeing times, the theory had not yet ...

prompted by casual observation of convivial pee sessions among captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary at the university. The team observed the sanctuary’s 20 apes for more than 600 ...

Well, not in so many words. But the study, which involved 20 captive chimpanzees at the Kumamoto Sanctuary at Kyoto University, does suggest that when one chimp urinates, others urinate too. “In ...

Language is often thought to be a uniquely human trait, but deep in the lush Kibale National Park in Uganda, a remarkable pair of chimpanzees are challenging that notion. Beryl, a chimpanzee ...

Future studies might investigate the behavior among wild chimps, as well as among other social species. “If you walk with great apes in the wild, you often see that group members really ...

The scientists first began studying the unusual behaviour after noticing many of the apes went to the bathroom at the same time as one another. Social closeness had little to do with when chimps ...

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