Nine years on from the passing of a cherished chimpanzee who shot to fame in the telly adverts for PG Tips, shocking new findings about her life have emerged. Choppers, a Western Chimpanzee, portrayed ...

Simple safety measures like masks, distancing, and quarantine are helping protect chimpanzees from human-borne diseases.

From an ontogenetic perspective, young chimps’ brains are wired to absorb information rapidly. This trait is crucial for ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can "catch" yawns from an android imitating human facial expressions, according to new research ...

Scientists observed chimpanzees in Uganda appearing to clean and treat both their own wounds and those of others. Scientists ...

Researchers describe cases of chimps tending to others’ wounds, as well as a chimp that freed another from a snare ...

Could chimpanzees hold a key to the evolution of human language? A recent study reveals complex vocal combinations in our closest relatives. Researchers recorded thousands of vocalizations from wild ...

Infant and mother bonds also appear to share some similarities. Like human children, chimpanzees develop different attachment styles with their mothers, according to a study published May 12 in ...

In the east, it’s more free-form and fluid. Like humans, chimpanzees drum with distinct rhythms – and two subspecies living on opposite sides of Africa have their own signature styles ...

The observation of bonding behaviours in wild chimpanzees suggests that some aspects of human attachment have a deep evolutionary origin. Rolland et al. studied wild chimpanzees aged 0–10 years ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...