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

Save the Chimps is an organization unlike any other. The world’s largest privately funded chimpanzee sanctuary, it’s home to ...

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.

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 ...

In the wild, whizzing as a group could be a predator-avoidance strategy ... Simply hearing or seeing another chimp urinate might prompt the need to pee, says Gallup, similar to how hearing running ...

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 ...

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.” ...