Researchers describe a link between genetic relatedness and sophisticated tool use in primates in East and Central Africa, ...

In recent decades, scientists have clearly demonstrated that chimpanzees, like humans, pass on complex cultures such as tool ...

Female chimps who migrate to new social groups bring skills and technology with them, helping to drive development of ...

"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something.

The researchers, who studied the behaviour of five communities of wild East African chimpanzees in rainforests and woodland in Uganda and Tanzania, also found small differences in conversation ...

Cultural complexity in chimpanzees depends on migration and interaction between groups, echoing early human patterns of cultural evolution, researchers report in a new study. The findings offer ...

An African forest elephant returns from the beach at Petit Loango, Gabon. Chimpanzee Filmed for the first time, one very special chimp has found a new source of food.

Chimpanzees, for example ... contributed to generating the remarkable diversity found among the African apes. Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided ...

DUBLIN ZOO’S LONGEST-STANDING resident, a chimpanzee called Betty, has died at the grand old age of 62. The zoo said she had ...

West African chimpanzees primates are part of an estimated nationwide chimp population of around 6000 believed to have gone down five-fold from 30 years ago. Sign up now for the latest news from ...

A disabled chimpanzee who was orphaned by the illegal bushmeat trade in Africa has been given a new home. The Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre in Wareham, Dorset, has welcomed Chocolat, who has been ...