Researchers recorded footage of wild chimps in Senegal showing youngsters how to use sticks to fish out ants and how to smash baobab fruit against rocks to open it, among other instances of instructio ...

Specifically, adult chimps deliberately model the behavior, then turn their tools over to the youngsters so they can mimic ...

Camera traps in Senegal caught chimpanzee tool use passing from mother to daughter, and a juvenile helping an infant crack ...

Chimpanzees living in a sanctuary in Africa have developed a “fashion trend” for dangling blades of grass or sticks from their ear holes and their behinds, a new study shows. In 2010, researchers ...

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers sometimes continue to carry their infants after they have died, a behavior known as infant ...

Deep in a remote stretch of West African forest, certain trees have accumulated piles of rocks at their base and gnarled ...

Chimpanzee mothers may carry dead infants longer depending on infant age, cause of death, maternal care, and temperature.

It’s true that male chimpanzees form typically linear dominance relationships, where one submits to another, all the way to ...

Chimpanzees are one of our closest relatives and their lives are in peril because of human intrusions into their homes and lives. A new book edited by chimpanzee experts Drs. Lydia Hopper, Assistant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walking through the savanna-woodland landscape of Boé National Park, Guinea-Bissau, you might encounter a tree covered in gnarled ...