The researchers pointed out that the chimps tested in the study are used to contact with humans and familiar with objects not found in the natural world, so future experiments should be carried out ...

Chimpanzees that had once formed a cohesive community in Uganda split into factions and turned violent, according to a new ...

A once-unified group of chimpanzees in Kibale National Park has split into two rival factions, with one group carrying out a ...

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers ...

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Mineral supplements, ape-style: A female chimp called Kana eats clay in the Budongo Forest of Uganda. Researchers observed chimps in the Budongo Forest of Uganda eating clay from clay pits and ...

Chimpanzees may look like smaller, hairier versions of humans, but when a full-grown chimp decides to throw its weight around, the difference is stark. Their strength is not just a gym-rat talking ...

The world's largest known group of wild chimpanzees has split and been locked in a vicious "civil war" for the last eight ...

Scientists watched a chimp society collapse-and the cause may rewrite everything we know about human conflict.

Chimps’ love for crystals could help explain our ancestors’ fascination with the shiny stones. The forerunners of modern humans collected crystals for which they had no apparent use, say scientists.