Chimpanzees have a culture around food, just like humans do. The fuel that sustains a chimpanzee goes far beyond fruit; it is also rooted in their sense of community. The combination of tool making, ...

Wild chimpanzees change the meaning of individual calls by combining them in different ways, a behavior that reflects how ...

In the lush forests of Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park, a grunt followed by a hoot might not just be noise—it might be a ...

A new study from Uganda's Budongo Forest draws on decades of data suggesting chimps understand the specific medicinal ...

The drumming of chimps followed a rhythm that was not random and followed a signature style to communicate and share ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda use plants to treat wounds and help injured companions, revealing potential roots of human medicine.

The research finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results show that ...

Field observers followed mother-infant pairs in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire, for four years. They noted the parenting ...

Chimpanzees don’t just treat their own injuries, but care for others, too. In the forests of Uganda, wild chimpanzees have ...

Some chimpanzees treated wounds with chewed leaves, while others pressed their fingers to injuries or helped remove snares ...

which bolsters confidence that the behavior is common across the geography of the species. “We didn’t know much about the ...

Previous research has shown that chimps have their own signature drumming style. A new analysis of 371 bouts of chimpanzee drumming demonstrates that the chimps “clearly play their instruments -- the ...