Anyone who has taken a gap year will tell you that travelling is a great time to broaden your mind and discover new interests. And it seems that this might not only apply to humans, but to chimpanzees ...

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 ...

(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 ...

(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.

In the early 20th century, scientists maintained that one of the fundamental differences between animals and humans is that ...

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 ...

Chimpanzees use others to get what they want, new research from the University of St Andrews has found. A team of researchers from the University of St Andrews, the University of Leipzig and the Max ...

Chimpanzees have been caught on camera using fishing rods to gather algae to eat in Bakoun, Guinea. The chimps were observed engaging in this unusual behaviour at a temporary research site set up as ...

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 ...