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 ...

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

did chimpanzee vocal communication and chimpanzee rhythmic drumming evolve together, and can this inform our understanding of the evolution of language and music?” “When investigating the ...

A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs.

In 2012, a male chimp sucked the wound of an unrelated male. The work is part of a growing body of research that sheds light on the evolution of health care, especially since chimpanzees are among ...

For wounded chimpanzees, help sometimes comes in the ... Freymann and colleagues report May 14 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Some were hygienic acts, like wiping with leaves after bowel ...

According to Freymann, these observations, published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, raise questions over chimpanzees’ capacity for empathy and altruism.

Understanding how chimpanzees have adapted to survive in the wild can shed light on key questions in human biology and evolution. It can also inform their conservation. However, we know very ...

and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published Jan. 30 in the journal Cell, researchers focused on a class of genetic switches known as Human Accelerated ...

Chimps are amazingly adaptable. Unlike other nonhuman primates, they live in a variety of habitats and have developed different behaviors to thrive in them. A recent study now shows that chimps also ...

The study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, demonstrates that the process used by a group of chimps to select stones for use as tools appear to resemble what is documented for Oldowan ...