A comical attempt at teamwork between two chimpanzees at Beijing Zoo takes a dramatic turn when a simple nut-cracking ...

Chimpanzees have long been known for their intelligence, but one famous experiment revealed a memory ability that stunned ...

And chimps outperform humans. I once watched Matsuzawa show videos of his experiments with Ai and Ayumu at a conference attended by the world’s leading chimp researchers, including Jane Goodall, ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...

When caretakers tried to retrieve the crystal from the chimps’ enclosure, they had to exchange it for favoured snacks of bananas and yoghurt. A second experiment showed that the chimps could identify ...

Ever find yourself people-watching in a cafe, or tuning into reality TV just to see who's arguing with who? You're not alone—and it turns out, you might have more in common with chimpanzees than you ...

Chimpanzees in one part of Guinea crack and eat nuts while others declined to do so even when offered tools, research published on Monday found, and the difference could shed light on their culture.

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Source: Ruben van Kuik, via Wikimedia Commons. How do scientists study the evolution of human culture and cognition? There aren’t any early hominins around—but there are chimpanzees, our closest ...