(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 ...

Chimpanzees do not automatically know how to crack nuts with stone tools, new research suggests. The study by the University of Zurich instead shows they learn this behaviour by watching others and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chalk up another mark of chimpanzee intelligence--they not only use tools for gathering food, but also to improve their sex lives. The chimps don't have to duck into a sex shop to gather their erotic ...

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 ...

The study by the University of Zurich suggests the primates may have a culture more similar to that of humans than previously thought. The scientists say their research helps to show what does and ...