One of the world's oldest living chimps is Mimi the Bonobo. Sixty-something-year-old Mimi resides in Skopje Zoo, where she ...

Chimpanzees are our closest relatives and highly intelligent. They use tools, communicate, and live in complex social ...

Studies on intraspecific variation in animal social structures are needed to inform an evolutionary account of human sociality. Here, we study multiple independent bonobo populations (n = 6) in ...

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 ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

By comparison, play in adults of other species has been considered rare, and yet a new study shows that some chimpanzees, like people, continue to play often throughout their entire lives and ...

Where did this idea originate? Twenty years ago, philosophers Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri published The Great Ape Project, a book that called for chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos, and ...

For thousands of years, humans have come together in small group to feast on food. Why is it important – and why do we still ...

By Sofia Quaglia It’s amazing what chimpanzees will do for a snack. In Congolese rainforests, the apes have been known to poke a hole into the ground with a stout stick, then grab a long stem ...

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

"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 ...