Chimpanzees can use tools to 'fish' for food without first watching another animal to learn from them, researchers have found. It is the first evidence chimpanzees can use tools spontaneously to solve ...

(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 ...

They really are little monkeys. Just like chimps, young children used rudimentary tools when faced with tricky tasks. Two and three year-olds employed sticks as rakes, skewers, hammers and levers when ...

Chimpanzees, like humans, may be life-long learners, a study suggests. Researchers have found these great apes continue to learn and hone their tool-using skills well into adulthood. The team observed ...

Critically endangered chimpanzees in the Ivory Coast craft extra-absorbent drinking sticks, remote cameras reveal Researchers have used camera traps to film tool-use that is unique to chimpanzees in ...

In the Goualougo Triangle of the Republic of Congo, a chimpanzee is hungry for termites. Its prey lives within fortress-like nests, but the chimp knows how to infiltrate these. It plucks the stem from ...

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 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 ...

The footage revealed that the clever primates habitually make special water-dipping sticks - chewing the end of the stick to turn it into a soft, water-absorbing brush. Primate researchers examined ...