Chimpanzees and bonobos maintain tight inner circles of preferred grooming partners inside their wider social networks, ...

Walking upright all the time is one of the unique features that sets Homo sapiens apart from other primates still around ...

Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Val, an adult male chimpanzee, demonstrates the ‘grass-in-ear’ behavior. - Jake Brooker/Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust ...

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 ...

A new study of wrist bones suggests human ancestors may have shared a knuckle-walking past with chimpanzees and gorillas.

Scientists are studying a rare, large-scale war between formerly friendly chimpanzees in central Africa in the hope that it could shed light on the belligerent nature of the apes’ closest biological ...

When people find out we study chimpanzees, they usually ask about their dark side. “You know chimpanzees kill each other, right?” or “Aren’t they the only animals besides humans that wage wars?” ...

Learn about the similarities between the wrist bones of humans and African apes, which may point to shared knuckle-walking ...

Walking through the savanna-woodland landscape of Boé National Park, Guinea-Bissau, you might encounter a tree covered in ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), also known as chimps, are one of our closest living relatives and members of the great ape family, along with gorillas, orangutans, bonobos and humans. Chimps share 98.7 ...