New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language.

Could chimpanzees hold a key to the evolution of human language? A recent study reveals complex vocal combinations in our ...

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

Bonobos and chimpanzees are the species most closely ... common to great ape species and humans — likely spurred the evolution of more complex communication and eventually the ability to form ...

There is still debate, researchers say, over whether the behavior is instinctual or based in more complex thought or even empathy.

Scientists observed chimpanzees in Uganda appearing to clean and treat both their own wounds and those of others. Scientists studying chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest of Uganda have found that these ...

University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the ...

More information: Elodie Freymann et al, Self-Directed and Prosocial Wound Care, Snare Removal, and Hygiene Behaviors Amongst the Budongo Chimpanzees, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2025).

Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating ... are documented in a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Evolution and Ecology on Wednesday — provide new clues about the ...