The chimp was using the stick as a tool to explore and fiddle with the camera, and even though it wasn’t what the scientists ...

The chimpanzee approaches the camera and appears to recognize that it is different from her environment, video footage shows. She picks up a long stick, uses it to probe the camera and then appears to ...

Since Jane Goodall's groundbreaking discovery in 1960 that chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania use tools to fish termites out of their mounds, further research has found that ...

Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees ...

The female endangered chimpanzee used a stick to investigate a trail camera in a Gabon national park. Gabon ANPN/Panthera/Gaboma Multimedia and Production In 2015, a photograph of a lone male lion ...

A chimpanzee has died just three weeks after being moved to a new zoo. Tombe, a 28-year-old male, was transported from Colchester Zoo to Belfast Zoo in March as part of a conservation programme.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study from Côte d’Ivoire highlights the urgent need to integrate chimpanzee cultural preservation with conservation. The study ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool ...

Team members found that chimpanzees with a lower status in the pecking order were more likely to engage in copycat behavior, “highlighting the role of social influence in the physiological pheno ...

The findings provide insights into the technical skills and engineering precision that the chimpanzees possess.