Chimpanzees are our closest relatives and highly intelligent. They use tools, communicate, and live in complex social structures. Chimpanzees live in Africa and adapt to various habitats.

"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills—a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations ...

Play fosters tolerance, cohesion, bonding, and cooperation. In other species, adult play is typically rare. However, a new study published today (November 21) in Current Biology reveals that some ...

From loud pant-hoots to soft grunts To get the deep learning algorithm to work properly, it had to be fed with a lot of training data (examples of chimpanzee sounds and their environment ...

It was a rainy morning at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, and at the chimpanzee exhibit, it was the children who were hooting and hollering. The apes themselves were placid, ignoring their rowdy ...

Wild chimpanzees appear to learn skills from each other and then – much as humans do – improve on those techniques from one generation to the next. In particular, young females that migrate ...

Our journey, and what might be the world’s best wildlife encounter, led us through 3 phases: trekking to spot chimpanzees, spending an hour sitting with gorillas on a classic trek, and lastly ...

Human error led to the death of a young gorilla in Alberta, Canada, according to officials at the Calgary Zoo. Eyare, a 2-year-old western lowland gorilla, died last ...

Expect chimp trekking in the impressive Kyambura Gorge plus boat trip on the Kazinga Channel. After exploring Queen, you will exit for Bwindi through the Ishasha area for tree-climbing lions sighting.