A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

We aren’t the only species on this planet that have domesticated another species. There is one kind of ancient ant that herds and cares for insect aphids in order to milk them of honeydew sugar. But ...

as well as other animals. While age did not influence the use of sex to reconcile after fights amongst either bonobos or ...

Our team’s research modelled the anatomy of these early humans, Australopithecus afarensis, to find out how well they could ...

It is published in the journal Animal Behaviour. Primates, including both monkeys and great apes, live in complex social environments where paying attention to others is crucial for interaction ...

A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, culture and the meaning of sharing a language ...

On a night in 1997, Benjamin Dauda killed a gorilla for the first time. Shrouding his lanky frame in dark fog, he stalked a ...

This study is the first to explore social memory development in non-human great apes. It is published in the journal Animal Behaviour. Primates, including both monkeys and great apes, live in ...