Well, if you were a chimpanzee—our closest genetic relative, with about 99% of our DNA—you'd more likely make it at dusk, ...

Researchers from the Taï Chimpanzee Project observed members of ... time they left their nests in the morning until they went to sleep at night. Their work is published in the journal Current ...

The area was cleaned after the chimpanzees were returned to their sleeping quarters. Behaviours were grouped into nine categories (see Table). Inactivity and locomotion were recorded only if they ...

Termites are a good source of energy, fat, vitamins, minerals and protein for chimpanzees. To eat the insects, chimpanzees need to use relatively thin probes to fish the termites out of the mounds ...

Chimpanzees, for example, show population-specific signatures of selection at genes important in immune response (MacFie et al. 2009, de Groot et al. 2010), suggesting that local adaptations in ...