Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

A chimpanzee female (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) sleeps in a nest built in a tree in Uganda's Kibale National Park. The ...

An experimental study of modern chimpanzees has documented patterns of behavior that seemingly mirror those of our prehistoric human ancestors, casting light on how our predecessors may have utilized ...

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Grunts, barks, screams and pants ring through Taï National Park in Cȏte d’Ivoire. Chimpanzees there combine these different calls like linguistic Legos to relay complex meanings when communicating, ...

Larger, more tolerant chimpanzee groups manage shared resources more effectively and exhibit less aggressive competition than smaller, more competitive groups. Tolerance functions as a group-level ...

The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go—except up in the trees. Onesmas Ainebyona stalks the chimps with such spiritual determination ...

Human's closest living relatives, Chimpanzees, primarily learn their communicative patterns from their mothers and maternal relatives, according to a new study. Newsweek has reached out to the study's ...

Chimpanzees living in a sanctuary in Africa have developed a “fashion trend” for dangling blades of grass or sticks from their ear holes and their behinds, a new study shows. In 2010, researchers ...