Pasa and Yoyo, two female chimpanzees, are best friends. They spend their afternoons lounging together in the warm grass of ...

A viral infection from millions of years ago may have influenced chimp brain evolution through DNA leftovers in the genome.

Chimpanzees at Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary can do what was once considered an exclusively human trait: form expectations on the basis of evidence, but revise them on learning new facts.

You don’t have to venture far to observe humans in the wild sharing a few drinks at mealtime. But we’re not the only ones. For the first time, wild chimps have been recorded indulging in alcohol ...

As it turns out, chimpanzees make pretty good doctors. For decades, scientists have been studying what chimpanzees do when they fall ill. This search has led to the identification of medicinal ...

Wild chimpanzees in Senegal were filmed doing something researchers have long debated whether apes are even capable of: deliberately teaching their young. What the cameras captured challenges what we ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison University expected to find risky behavior to peak in adolescence in a study of ...

Chimpanzees sharing fruit. Image via Anna Bowland/ Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project/ University of Exeter. Remote cameras in Guinea-Bissau’s Cantanhez National Park in Africa have captured a fascinating ...