You might have heard a fascinating bit of news in recent weeks: Researchers at the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project in Uganda ...

Scientists Stunned as Chimpanzees Turn on Friends in Killing Spree By Will Dunham April 9 (Reuters) - For two decades, researchers observed members of the Ngogo chimpanzee group of Kibale ⁠National ...

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 ...

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war." ...

For years, two sets of chimpanzees lived as one in Uganda’s Kibale National Park — grooming, interacting and patrolling their territory in a cohesive community. Then suddenly, one set charged the ...

Jane Goodall always remembered the first time a wild chimpanzee took a banana from her outstretched hand. In that moment, she would often say, the chimp—a grizzled male she had dubbed David ...

A study of chimpanzees in the mountains of Rwanda shows our nearest relatives adapt their nests to account for extremely ...

Every evening, as they move from place to place through the forest, chimpanzees stop to build a nest—most often in a tree—to sleep in. Using a selection of branches, leaves and twigs, they create ...

When I talk about my time in the field, and how wonderful and fascinating chimpanzees are, one thing that often surprises people is that chimps eat meat. Listeners are truly shocked—"Wait what?" they ...