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

Now, a study published in the journal Nature has found that wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can remember the location of hidden underground ant nests for years, and will repeatedly return to nest ...

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.

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

A new study, conducted on wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, provides evidence that the gestures used by male chimpanzees from four neighboring communities ...

While no similar studies have yet been conducted on chimpanzees in the wild, some researchers have noted similar behaviors in wild populations, Onishi said. The researchers are also curious about ...

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.” ...

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