A series of stunning findings about great apes’ mental capabilities in recent years has transformed how we see our closest relatives ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chimps at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda. (Sabana Gonzalez / Social Origins Lab/Cover Images) Chimpanzees may ...

Adolescent chimpanzees share some of the same risk-taking behaviors as human teens, but they may be less impulsive than their human counterparts, according to research published by the American ...

Humans are an interesting mixture of altruism and competition. We work together well at times and at others we will fight to get our own way. To try to explain these conflicting tendencies, ...

A biologist has been studying animals like hedgehogs and chimpanzees and has found evidence of a secret language that mammals ...

Mathematical principles common to many human languages also apply to chimpanzee ‘play’ gestures, scientists have found. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's ...

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