Chimpanzee nest-building behavior may reveal an ability to respond to weather cues before nighttime conditions fully arrive.

DNA methylation plays an important role in separating us genetically from our closest relatives.

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war." ...

The Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda have divided themselves into two main factions, and dozens of deaths have been recorded since the split in 2018. A new study details the unprecedented violence, which c ...

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps turning on itself ...

Humans are not merely adept at communicating danger — it is seemingly built into our brains. That may be true for most social animals, but not all animals can communicate using specific nouns or verbs ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University and Universidad Carlos III de ...

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Pictured here is a chimpanzee from Ngogo in Uganda's Kibale National Park. Bryce Carlson, a Purdue assistant professor of anthropology who studies primate ecology and nutrition in human evolution, ...