Project Chimps, a North Georgia sanctuary for 99 former research chimpanzees, is hosting its Spring Brachiate program for ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

Ai, a "genius" chimpanzee who could recognise more than 100 Chinese characters and the English alphabet, has died aged 49, ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

Human's closest living relatives, Chimpanzees, primarily learn their communicative patterns from their mothers and maternal relatives, according to a new study. Newsweek has reached out to the study's ...

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Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social ...

A chimpanzee mother vocalizes while her offspring looks on. Young chimpanzees learn their communication style from their mother and maternal relatives, but show little similarity to the communication ...

Born in western Africa in 1976, Ai was brought to the university’s Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior in ...

Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even removing others from snares left by human hunters, new research suggests.