Chimpanzee mother tends her son’s wound by applying insects
It's a dazzling display of prosocial behavior among great apes.
Tag: chimpanzee
Gorillas and humans treat their territory the same way, study finds
They defend the center of their land, but generally tolerate other gorillas.
Great apes can tap into other points of view to anticipate actions
New compelling evidence suggests that chimps, bonobos, and orangutans also have a 'theory of mind.'
Chimps also love to eat crabs, new study shows
This isn't the only thing that surprised researchers.
Wild chimpanzees learned how to crack open tortoises — and they’re sharing the knowledge among themselves
Cracking open a turtle-y one with the boys.
Human interference is destroying chimpanzee culture, a new paper reports
Culture shock squared.
Chimps get grossed out too, pointing to the origins of disgust in humans
Nobody seems to like touching moist, soft stuff.
Wild chimpanzees have remarkably stable personality traits
Researchers revisited some chimps in Tanzania after more than 40 years and found their personality stayed remarkably consistent.
Chimpanzees can master circular relationships, rock-paper-scissors about as fast as a 4-year-old
Ah, R-P-S. The only civilized way of deciding who has to go to the store.
What does gestural communication of great apes tell us about human language?
Our language is one of the features that define us as human beings and distance us from all other animals.
Edible Ebola vaccine for wild apes could revolutionize how we fight the disease
It's a terrible irony.
Chimp took down drone with careful planning
Calm and calculated - a chimp at a Dutch zoo took down a drone, squashing it with a tree branch. ...
All chimps – wild or captive alike – now classed as ‘endangered’ in the US
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports it has classed all chimpanzees, whether captive or wild, under the Endangered Species ...
Ebola has killed off a third of the world’s gorillas and chimpanzees
The great apes are suffering greatly from Ebola too - gorillas and chimps are facing the greatest threat ever, after ...
Chimps like African and Indian music – not Western music
Chimps prefer silence to all types of Western music(even classical music), but that doesn't mean they don't like music at ...
Laboratory Chimpanzees Released Into Sanctuary After 30 Years Of Cages – Their reactions are heart melting
30 years. They spent the vast majority of their lives in a lab, and after 30 years, they are released ...
Chimps are rational, not conformist – study shows
The fact that chimpanzees are extremely intelligent should no longer surprise anyone. Most people also know that they have their ...
New study adds new dimension to the threats posed to the Bonobo – the ‘forgotten ape’
This classy looking chap is a bonobo - a great ape species which is widely overlooked and often forgotten. A ...
Gorilla mother uses makeshift ladder to help her young climb an obstacle [PHOTO]
While chimpanzees, which are our closest relatives sharing 98% of our genetic blueprint, are notorious for their widespread tool use, ...
Abstract art painted by chimps to be auctioned. Raises awareness on lab cruelty
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), recently initiated a bold and creative project in which they enlisted six member ...
Strikingly similar ape and human infant gestures hint to evolution of language
Psychologists closely studying chimpanzee, bonobo and human infants found striking similarities among the three species in terms of different types ...
One in thirteen people have chimp-like feet
Did you know you may have chimp-like feet?
Chimps also ‘think about thinking’ akin to humans
Our close primate relatives, chimpanzees, have been constantly amazing us with their incredible cognitive abilities and personality traits that are ...
Chimps enjoy solving puzzles just for the thrill of it
Image Credit: Zoological Society of London Earlier today I wrote about some recent findings that suggest humans have evolved unique ...
NIH to retire most of its research chimps, report says
Clear and solid steps have been taken in the past few years to cancel research, experiments and drug testing on ...
Chimpanzees have a sense of fairness
Chimpanzees have the same sense of fair-play as humans do, explain researchers who played the Ultimatum game with them - ...
Human ancestors started walking on two legs to carry more scarce resources, study suggests
One of the biggest anthropological mysteries scientists have been trying to unravel is the long put question of how did ...
The US is debating the use of chimps in medical research
The United States and Gabon are the only countries left in the world that are still using chimps for medical ...
New research shows chimps are self-aware
Until recently it was considered that only humans have the ability of being aware of the fact that they exist ...
How the human penis lost its spines
It's been long theoretized by most women, and not only, that there is a connection between the penis and the ...
