Chimpanzees and bonobos maintain tight inner circles of preferred grooming partners inside their wider social networks, ...
Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that ...
Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University and Universidad Carlos III de ...
Walking upright all the time is one of the unique features that sets Homo sapiens apart from other primates still around ...
We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that existed in the common ancestor of humans and apes six million years ago. Humans ...
Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees combine calls in a manner similar to how humans structure words to make phrases ...
Chimpanzees (often colloquially “chimps”) are African great apes in the genus Pan, which has two living species: the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and the bonobo (Pan paniscus). The common ...