Chimpanzees watching a video together get the same sense of bonding and closeness that humans can feel from watching a movie or TV show together, say US university researchers. Pairs of chimps ...

Scientists have found ‘amazing’ similarities between chimpanzee and human conversations. Chimpanzees in the wild take it in turns to “speak” during conversations in the same way humans do ...

This is different than female chimps, who will leave the troop in search of a mate. This promotes genetic diversity and ...

Like humans, wild chimpanzees engage in snappy, turn-taking conversations, where they wait just a fraction of a second for their turn to 'speak'. The animals communicate mostly with gestures ...

Chimpanzees have a mainly vegetarian diet, but do occasionally eat meat. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now shown for the first time that chimpanzees also eat crabs. In the ...

That had smaller canine teeth. They didn’t have weapons in their faces like our chimpanzees ancestors. So this is a kind of special way in which mate choice can remodel maleness in a way that ...

Furthermore, when two chimpanzees mate the result is a new chimpanzee, and not a chicken. This idea was formalised by Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish biologist who in his 1735 book Systema Naturae ...