The long-running conflict in a formerly unified community, the second ever observed, adds to Jane Goodall’s studies about a ...

Chimpanzees appear to execute Rational Evidence-Weighing in complex decision-making tasks. The experiments conducted demonstrated that chimps changed their minds when presented with stronger evidence.

Young chimpanzees learn their communication style from their mother and maternal relatives, but show little similarity to the communication behavior of their father and paternal relatives, according ...

The world’s largest-known group of chimpanzees split into two factions that are now engaged in deadly combat ...

Picture a baby chimp clinging to its mother's back, wide eyes taking in everything around it. Just like human babies, these little ones start life completely helpless, relying on their mom for ...

Chimpanzees may share more cognitive abilities with humans than was once believed. A new study finds that chimps can revise their beliefs when presented with stronger evidence, showing a level of ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda use plants to treat wounds and help injured companions, revealing potential roots of human medicine.

Jane Goodall, the world's most famous primatologist, accomplished an astounding feat in her 91 years of life: She fundamentally changed the world's view of what it means to be human. At the age of ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison University expected to find risky behavior to peak in adolescence in a study of ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...