The results were telling. Plants selected by chimpanzees to make tools were significantly more flexible — on average, 175% ...

Chimpanzees in Tanzania choose flexible materials for termite tools, revealing clues about the origins of human intelligence ...

In an exciting first that highlights a mysterious aspect of human technological evolution, chimpanzees impressively engineer tools to fish for termites in Tanzania. For chimpanzees, termites might be ...

Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

New research from Oxford University has revealed chimpanzee "engineering" capabilities that aid them in retrieving insects as food sources.

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

A female chimpanzee eating termites using a tool alongside her infant at Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania Credit: Alejandra Pascual-Garrido ...

In the USA, at the Ape Initiative conservation center, a male bonobo chimpanzee Kanzi died. He was 44 years old. He had ...

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Using a portable mechanical tester in the field, she measured how much force it took to bend plant materials used by chimpanzees to construct termite fishing tools compared to plant materials that ...