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 ...

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 ...

In a recent study published in PLOS ONE, researchers from Durham University investigated the behavioral contagion of grooming and play among sanctuary-living chimpanzees in Zambia. The study ...

Unlike adult chimpanzees, the juvenile chimpanzees used as subjects did not avoid walking in faeces. The outdoor play area normally had to be disinfected and scrubbed daily to remove faeces which were ...

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 ...

Like humans, chimpanzees can rise to the occasion in front of a large audience or fail miserably, scientists said. The team performed an experiment on six chimpanzees that have learned to use ...

The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR), located in San Antonio, Texas, is home to 222 chimpanzees. The chimpanzees play a vital role in the development of vaccines for hepatitis and ...