Doug was the leader of his chimpanzee group. He had quickly gained a reputation from human observers as a fair and tolerant ...

Some male chimpanzees use covert physical gestures to sneakily solicit sex. According to a new study, these mating moves vary between chimpanzee communities, suggesting chimp populations have their ...

By comparison, play in adults of other species has been considered rare, and yet a new study reported in Current Biology shows that some chimpanzees, like people, continue to play often throughout ...

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 ...

Image by Madalena Boto. Tom Ross follows a group of habituated chimpanzees from a safe distance in Gabon. To have watched Life of Mammals as a child growing up 20 years ago, the opportunity to ...

A recent study published in the journal Science provided evidence that wild chimpanzees exhibit cumulative culture, learning and improving tool use across generations. The study, published ...

In fact, for many animals and birds, sex can play a comparable social role to what it plays in humans. As we saw in this research into the chimps at the Chimfunshi sanctuary in north-western ...