(Credit: By Norma Cornes/Shutterstock) As it turns out, chimpanzees don’t need to see in order to do, no matter what the old mantra might lead you to believe. A common belief among researchers is that ...
A famous tool-using chimpanzee ripped a baby girl from her mother's arms before taking her into the forest to butcher her and harvest her organs. Distraught mother Seny Zogba was working in a cassava ...
A new glimmer of hope has opened up for a tribe of tool using chimpanzees after the last fertile female gave birth to a healthy baby girl. The tiny community of apes, famed for their remarkable use of ...
Remarkable video clips of wild chimpanzees using "tool kits" to dig out termites from an underground nest have been recorded by scientists, who believe it is the most sophisticated culture yet ...
(Three chimps engaging with the honey hole experiment in Kibale National Park.Andrew Bernard) Traveling can be an eye-opening experience for chimpanzees, forcing them to become more innovative.
Chimpanzees do not automatically know how to crack nuts with stone tools, but instead learn this behaviour from others, new research suggests. The findings indicate the culture of the animals may be ...
In the early 20th century, scientists maintained that one of the fundamental differences between animals and humans is that ...