Tag: chimpanzee

After years of confinement and grueling practices, lab chimps find joy and peace in sanctuaries.

Their knowledge of specific plants with medicinal properties is stunning.

This challenges the idea that humor is a human-only characteristic.

Just as with humans the fish (in this case termites) aren't always biting.

Hopefully night-vision goggles aren't next.

It's a dazzling display of prosocial behavior among great apes.

They defend the center of their land, but generally tolerate other gorillas.

New compelling evidence suggests that chimps, bonobos, and orangutans also have a 'theory of mind.'

This isn't the only thing that surprised researchers.

Cracking open a turtle-y one with the boys.

Culture shock squared.

Nobody seems to like touching moist, soft stuff.

Researchers revisited some chimps in Tanzania after more than 40 years and found their personality stayed remarkably consistent.

Ah, R-P-S. The only civilized way of deciding who has to go to the store.

Our language is one of the features that define us as human beings and distance us from all other animals.

It's a terrible irony.

Calm and calculated - a chimp at a Dutch zoo took down a drone, squashing it with a tree branch. ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports it has classed all chimpanzees, whether captive or wild, under the Endangered Species ...

The great apes are suffering greatly from Ebola too - gorillas and chimps are facing the greatest threat ever, after ...

Chimps prefer silence to all types of Western music(even classical music), but that doesn't mean they don't like music at ...

The fact that chimpanzees are extremely intelligent should no longer surprise anyone. Most people also know that they have their ...

This classy looking chap is a bonobo - a great ape species which is widely overlooked and often forgotten. A ...

While chimpanzees, which are our closest relatives sharing 98% of our genetic blueprint, are notorious for their widespread tool use, ...

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), recently initiated a bold and creative project in which they enlisted six member ...

Psychologists closely studying chimpanzee, bonobo and human infants found striking similarities among the three species in terms of different types ...

Did you know you may have chimp-like feet?

Our close primate relatives, chimpanzees, have been constantly amazing us with their incredible cognitive abilities and personality traits that are ...

Image Credit: Zoological Society of London Earlier today I wrote about some recent findings that suggest humans have evolved unique ...

Clear and solid steps have been taken in the past few years to cancel research, experiments and drug testing on ...

Chimpanzees have the same sense of fair-play as humans do, explain researchers who played the Ultimatum game with them - ...

One of the biggest anthropological mysteries scientists have been trying to unravel is the long put question of  how did ...

The United States and Gabon are the only countries left in the world that are still using chimps for medical ...

Until recently it was considered that only humans have the ability of being aware of the fact that they exist ...

It's been long theoretized by most women, and not only, that there is a connection between the penis and the ...