Apes include a rather broad range of simians (higher primates) from the Old World. Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people ...

When it comes to closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, chimpanzees and bonobos top the list. They share a common ancestor and over 98% of our DNA. Both species belong to the genus Pan.

A new study shows that both chimpanzees and young children are drawn to watching social interactions—sometimes even at a cost ...

Children and chimpanzees both prefer watching social interactions over individual behaviors, revealing shared evolutionary ...

From playgrounds to primate sanctuaries, a new study by the University of California in Santa Barbara in the US and the and ...

Researchers found that both chimpanzees and young children prefer to watch videos of social interactions than videos of a single individual.

A myth repeated so often in museums, textbooks, and nature documentaries that most people accept it as dogma is that humans ...

One chimpanzee had a pale, flesh-colored face instead of the dark color common in adults. It gave me a slightly eerie feeling when I first saw him close to, and ever after that he was “Count ...

At some point in your life you might have seen animals groom each other. This is something very common in chimpanzees, for example. Thanks to decades of work by primatologist Dr. Richard Wrangham ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos, share close genetic ties with humans but exhibit distinct physical and behavioral traits. Chimpanzees display male-dominated, aggressive tendencies, while bonobos are ...

The findings suggest that the neuronal architecture for complex communication was already present in the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees approximately seven million years ago and made ...