Baby chimpanzees are some of the cutest babies in the animal kingdom. Newborns are only around 4 pounds at birth, which is ...

Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, providing evidence for ...

See rare photos of chimpanzees treating their wounds with insects. A photographer captured images of the great apes in Gabon applying an unknown species of insect to both themselves and their ...

On average, the timing between a gesture and response was 120 milliseconds. Of the various populations, the Sonso chimpanzees of Uganda were the slowest responders.

“Chimpanzees and bonobos were looking longer at the images of their previous groupmates with whom they had these more positive social relationships, or something like you might call their ...

Bonobos and chimpanzees seem to recognise photos of former group members – even animals they haven’t seen for over 20 years. This means that these apes have the longest social memory ever ...

Long-term memories may have been vital to our own evolution, suggests a new study of chimpanzees and bonobos. By Carl Zimmer In 2015, while working as an undergraduate researcher at the North ...