World Chimpanzee Day highlights why our closest living relatives are vital to science, forests, and understanding human ...

The more we try to understand chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, the more we find ourselves humbled by the richness and complexity of their lives — and of their intelligence. Today, on World ...

Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing a group of apes on June 24, 2015, in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, where the project ...

The largest group of wild chimpanzees known to scientists has permanently split in two. In a study published in Science, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions ...

Across the forests of central and western Africa, two of the most remarkable primates on Earth live very different lives despite sharing a close evolutionary relationship with humans. Chimpanzees and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A famous chimpanzee community in Uganda split into two rival factions after years of social strain, giving scientists a rare look ...

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Uganda's chimpanzee experiences are among the finest on earth. And nowhere is that more evident than in two remarkable ...

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results, published in Current ...