Researcher extroardinaire Jane Goodall, who has studied chimpanzees for more than four decades, will distill her expertise this weekend at two events: The Roots & Shoots Discovery stage show for kids ...

Remember when the critics said your art was so simple that a monkey could do it? Well it turns out they were right. 37-year-old Brent is a retired laboratory primate living at the Chimp Haven ...

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A team of researchers from Utrecht University, Durham University, and other institutions have observed something remarkable at a chimpanzee sanctuary in Zambia. Several chimpanzees from one particular ...

Chimpanzees in Zambia are making headlines for an unexpected reason. In a quirky new trend that has researchers both amused and intrigued, the chimps have started wearing blades of grass in their ears ...

When people find out we study chimpanzees, they usually ask about their dark side. “You know chimpanzees kill each other, right?” or “Aren’t they the only animals besides humans that wage wars?” ...

In the 1950s, Japanese zoologists noticed that a group of macaques developed a new food-washing technique and spread the knowledge throughout their ranks. If these primates could communicate and teach ...

New findings from Uganda’s Ngogo Chimpanzee Project challenge long-held assumptions about primate behaviour and child ...

Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work ...

Foreword / Frans de Waal -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. At the beginning -- 2. Food and feeding behaviour -- 3. Growth and development -- 4. Play and exploration -- 5. Communication as culture -- 6.