A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Jane Goodall ...

Animals are way smarter than we might actually imagine, be it chimpanzees making tools like mini engineers, parrots talking ...

Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be essential for the evolution of complex and varied tool use, according to a new study. Chimpanzees ...

Many younger people know the pain of trying to teach an older person how to print a PDF or navigate the internet. But, of course, some people keep with the times and still learn how to use new tools ...

Researchers at the University of College London recently undertook a massive study to better understand chimps. The team analyzed data from fecal samples of 828 wild chimpanzees across 30 populations, ...

Jane Goodall, a pioneering primatologist who befriended chimpanzees, is dead at 91. She discovered that chimpanzees make and use tools, engage in war, and have personalities. Later in life, Goodall ...

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