It’s not unusual for chimpanzees to fight. Chimpanzee society is naturally aggressive and even violent. However, visitors at ...

And now we also see that it happens in the wild, in chimps.” Dr. van Boekholt first noticed the gesture in 2022 during his second field season at a chimpanzee community in Kibale called Ngogo.

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Researchers at Kyoto University spent more than 600 hours studying 20 captive chimps to determine if urination is socially ...

The lab’s research involved frontal lobotomies on monkeys, administering various drugs, and even one case where a husband and ...

For millennia, the western chimpanzees of Taï National Park in Ivory Coast have communicated with each other in a dialect of ...

Though the study only included captive chimpanzees, researchers suspect contagious urination probably exists in the wild, too. Future studies might investigate the behavior among wild chimps ...

Wild chimpanzees have long been known to rely on their powerful memories to know where and in what trees they can find ripe ...

Onishi and her colleagues next want to study other groups of chimpanzees, including wild chimps, to see “how social factors like sex, familiarity, and age might influence contagious urination.” ...

How does providing a village with clean water help save chimpanzees? Our Rescue & Care team reports on helping local people ...