Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers sometimes continue to carry their infants after they have died, a behavior known as infant ...

Specifically, adult chimps deliberately model the behavior, then turn their tools over to the youngsters so they can mimic ...

Researchers show how western chimpanzees in Senegal give stick tools and baobab fruit to each other. This transfer was typically between relatives, especially by mothers to their immature offspring.

Two-thirds of a century after Jane Goodall observed "David Greybeard" break off a twig to fashion a fishing rod for termites, ...

Chimpanzees living in a sanctuary in Africa have developed a “fashion trend” for dangling blades of grass or sticks from their ear holes and their behinds, a new study shows. In 2010, researchers ...

Chimpanzees are one of our closest relatives and their lives are in peril because of human intrusions into their homes and lives. A new book edited by chimpanzee experts Drs. Lydia Hopper, Assistant ...

A study has found that young chimpanzees develop distinct population-specific vocal patterns as they mature (ontogeny), ...

Primatologist Elodie Freymann arrived in Uganda’s Budongo Forest in 2021 to observe the chimpanzees there and learn more about their ability to self-medicate with healing plants. But as she flipped ...

Jane Goodall always remembered the first time a wild chimpanzee took a banana from her outstretched hand. In that moment, she would often say, the chimp—a grizzled male she had dubbed David ...

Humans walk heel-first far more consistently than chimpanzees, a strategy that may have helped our ancestors travel farther ...