An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns of behavior that seemingly mirror those of our prehistoric human ancestors, casting light on how our predecessors may have utilized ...

A recent study on chimpanzees in Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, revealed that chimpanzees are losing traditions of male mating gestures. This coincides with declining chimpanzee ...

New research shows that chimpanzees regularly communicate with each other through rapid back-and-forth gestures, similar to how humans talk. Reading time 2 minutes Chimpanzees and humans are even more ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. To get our points across, humans use numerous gestures and shift the ...

Researchers are going bananas. A new scientific paper reports that chimpanzees “are capable of” producing sounds that mimic words they hear from people. It follows recent research revealing that ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Chimpanzees are our closest primate relatives, sharing 99 percent of ...

This past March, the Human Society of the United States filed an accusation against one of the leading nonhuman primate research facilities in the country, claiming it had systematically bred ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.

The study, from North Carolina State University, looked at a tribe of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). These chimpanzees have dense black hair covering their bodies except the face, fingers, toes, palms ...