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 ...

(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 ...

When it comes to DIY stereotypes suggest that men are more adept than women. But new research has revealed that females may actually be better at mastering the use of tools - at least among ...

Cumulative culture is a remarkable phenomenon: it refers to a species’ ability to build up knowledge and skills over time, with ideas and practices becoming more complex and refined from one ...

INTELLIGENT chimp Jeje who’s famed for using tools has brutally killed a human baby – sparking uproar among locals. The beast ripped the baby girl from her mother’s back before taking her into the ...

Wild chimpanzees use tools during some of the most cognitively and physically demanding foraging behaviors observed in non-human animals. While the behavioral changes that occur with aging have been ...

An angry mob have ransacked a zoo after a famous local chimpanzee ripped a baby from a mum's arms and killed her. The child's distraught mother, Seny Zogba, claims she was working in a field of ...

Researchers have used camera traps to film tool-use that is unique to chimpanzees in Ivory Coast. The footage revealed that the clever primates habitually make special water-dipping sticks - chewing ...

Researchers have captured the spread of a new type of tool use in a wild population of chimps. They say this is the first clear evidence of wild chimpanzees developing a new culture. As the team ...

Source: Ruben van Kuik, via Wikimedia Commons. How do scientists study the evolution of human culture and cognition? There aren’t any early hominins around—but there are chimpanzees, our closest ...

Reports claim Jeje took the baby to harvest her organs for food in the sickening attack INTELLIGENT chimp Jeje who’s famed for using tools has brutally killed a human baby – sparking uproar among ...