Some chimpanzees clasp hands while grooming, a behavior they acquire in groups rather than learn from their families. The behavior’s origin shows chimps can form and adhere to cultures just like ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos were more likely than chimpanzees to comfort others in distress.

Scientists may have recorded chimpanzees learning skills from each other in the wild for the first time, according to a new study. The finding supports the idea that humanity's closest living ...

Researchers have found new evidence that chimpanzees develop their own local cultures and communities, and pass on certain behaviors to their offspring to ensure they'll fit in with the local customs.

Chimpanzees in Senegal are known to make spears out of tree branches and leaves to hunt and kill certain prey. Creative Commons Female chimpanzees are making their male counterparts look a little less ...

In that moment, she would often say, the chimp—a grizzled male she had dubbed David Greybeard—welcomed her into a community of humanity’s closest living relatives. It opened a relationship with ...

Anthropologist Jane Goodall has said that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's behavior reminds her of male chimpanzees' 'dominance rituals'. Goodall spoke to The Atlantic, which said it ...

Jane Goodall’s analysis of Donald Trump’s behavior as being chimp-like went viral online again following the primatologist’s death at the age of 91 on Wednesday. Multiple social media accounts shared ...

I trampled clumsily through the dense undergrowth, attempting in vain to go a full five minutes without getting snarled in the thorns that threatened my every move. It was my first field mission in ...

I trampled clumsily through the dense undergrowth, attempting in vain to go a full five minutes without getting snarled in the thorns that threatened my every move. It was my first field mission in ...