For the first time, a troop of chimpanzees have been observed participating in a fad, a meme...  ...out if this was really a tradition, and not just chimpanzees sticking grass in their ears at random, van Leeuw...  ...th the research, agrees. This study shows how the chimpanzees...

(Photo: Lindsey Turner)We know that yawning is con...  ...s. That’s true not just for humans, but for chimpanzees , bonobos, and gelada baboons. While contagious ya...  ...lished their research on contagious yawning among chimpanzees and gelada baboons. They found that increased fam...  ...y present in the...

You may have noticed that the human penis lacks sp...  ...to many animals, including other primates such as chimpanzees , which use the spines for sexual competition:...

Jane Goodall has studied chimpanzees in Africa since 1960. She arrived in Tanganyika w...  ...ater, she is still working for the benefit of the chimpanzees she loves. National Geographic has an extensive r...

Primatologists in Guinea have observed wild chimpanzees intentionally disabling snares: On two occasio...

Scientists have studied chimpanzees and other primates in captivity when long-time co...  ...ame issue of Current Biology describes two mother chimpanzees carrying their dead infants in the Bossou colony...

Studies with apes and monkeys show that the concep...  ...human experience. Researchers taught monkeys and chimpanzees to exchange tokens for grapes (which they preferr...  ...d from his cohorts, the tantrums began. However, chimpanzees in this study went beyond the basic tenets of the...  ...the foundation of...

According to a BBC News article by Victoria Gill,...  ...iversity in Atlanta, Georgia have discovered that chimpanzees will yawn after watching animated chimpanzees yawn. They hope to use this information to learn...  ...chimps, he explained that there was evidence that chimpanzees...

Researchers in the Tai National Park in West Afric...  ...Park in West Africa found that in a study of 262 chimpanzees , male chimpanzees favored giving food to females that were in heat...  ...e Boesch observed all of this while studying wild chimpanzees in the Tai National Par...

Japanese television is one of the best things in the world. Pair it with another stupidly catching internet song and you have an instant hit -especially when the video and song emphasize the wonder that is created when...