Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mind-blowing video shows a clever cow using a tool to scratch herself, with a researcher saying thousands of years of ...

A recent study assessed wild chimpanzees’ use of sticks as a tool, monitoring how chimps of different ages gripped and manipulated the implement to retrieve food from tricky places. The study found ...

Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) confirmed in a statement on Wednesday (Oct. 1). Goodall died of natural causes in ...

Many younger people know the pain of trying to teach an older person how to print a PDF or navigate the internet. But, of course, some people keep with the times and still learn how to use new tools ...

"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills—a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations ...

Understanding the ways humans and animals organize and execute complex sequences of behavior sheds light on the evolution of cognition. Sequential behaviors, such as language, music, and tool use, ...

Wild chimpanzees show reduced participation and performance in their tool-use behaviours as they experience old age, according to long-term video observations. The study, published today in eLife, ...

For thousands of years, cows have primarily been viewed as a source of food and leather, but researchers now believe we have underestimated their intelligence. In a now-viral video, a cow is seen ...

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 in ...