Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

When I talk about my time in the field, and how wonderful and fascinating chimpanzees are, one thing that often surprises people is that chimps eat meat. Listeners are truly shocked—"Wait what?" they ...

Wild chimpanzees have been studied for more than 60 years, but they continue to delight and surprise observers, as we found during the summer of 2017 in Kibale National Park in Uganda. We were ...

Just when we need them most, a community of big-eyed baby chimps is swinging to our rescue for the next three Saturdays. Ironically, this three-part docuseries originally seen in the U.K. and now ...

In the lush canopies of Guinea-Bissau’s Cantanhez National Park, a group of wild chimpanzees has been caught in a moment that’s oddly familiar: eating and sharing fruit laced with alcohol. For the ...

You are never too old to play — a maxim that even adult chimpanzees seem to follow. Young chimpanzees are already known to get many benefits from playing. But it seems to also be more important among ...

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 ...

Ena Onishi, a doctoral student at Japan’s Kyoto University, has spent more than 600 hours watching chimpanzees urinating. She has a good reason for all that peeping, though. She is part of a team of ...

Animals respond to injury in many ways. So far, evidence for animals tending wounds with biologically active materials is rare. Yet, a recent study of an orangutan treating a wound with a medicinal ...

When people have an audience watching them, it can change their performance for better or worse. Now, researchers reporting in iScience on November 8 have found that chimpanzees' performance on ...

When people talk to each other, their conversations usually include many fast twists. Humans do not naturally talk in Shakespearean soliloquies, but by regularly interrupting and wildly gesticulating.