Researchers found that male chimpanzees were more likely to direct attention and support toward their own offspring than ...

A new book edited by chimpanzee experts Drs. Lydia Hopper, Assistant Director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, and Stephen Ross, Director of the Center, called ...

Chimpanzees are more likely to engage in play or groom each other if they see others performing these social behaviors first, researchers report. Chimpanzees are more likely to engage in play or groom ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns of ...

Chimpanzees tend to pee when others in their group do, in a phenomenon scientists have dubbed "contagious urination." Because groups of people often go to the bathroom together too, and chimpanzees ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University Anthropology Professor Jill Pruetz long suspected that man-made changes influenced the aggressive behavior researchers have observed among chimpanzees. However, her ...

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Walking through the savanna-woodland landscape of Boé National Park, Guinea-Bissau, you might encounter a tree covered in gnarled scars, with an accumulation of rocks surrounding its base. The ...

AMES, Iowa – Shocking is one word Jill Pruetz uses to describe the behavior she witnessed after a chimp was killed at her research site in Fongoli, Senegal. The fact that chimps would kill a member of ...