Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, and this adds to the fascination of learning how they behave and interact with each other. We know that they, like humans, live in social groups and that ...

Chimpanzees appear to execute Rational Evidence-Weighing in complex decision-making tasks. The experiments conducted demonstrated that chimps changed their minds when presented with stronger evidence.

At many prehistoric sites, archaeologists have discovered crystals alongside tools and human remains. These stones, some of ...

Jane Goodall, who spent decades studying chimpanzees and advocating for their protection, uncovered something unexpected in her work: These primates helped reverse a climate disaster that occurred ...

Human communication is a complex weave of words and gestures — a mix of vocal and visual signals. "People use vocal and visual communication in a very rich and combined way," says Joseph Mine, a ...

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 ...