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Humans love having pets. Seems like some other primates do, too

Ishe and Dembe, two young eastern chimpanzees, were leaping from branch to branch in the dense jungle canopy of a reserve in Uganda when the chimps surprised watching researchers....

Celebrating World Chimpanzee Day

Happy World Chimpanzee Day. On July 14, as the world celebrates one of humans’ closest living relatives, here’s a roundup of recent Mongabay stories about chimpanzees and their wor...

Chimpanzees Keep Throwing Stones at the Same Trees – Scientists Want To Know Why

Chimpanzee stone-throwing sites may preserve rare evidence of primate culture and communication. In the savanna woodland of Boé National Park in Guinea-Bissau, a scarred tree can t...

Famous chimpanzees solved puzzles that changed how humans understood intelligence, but their move to Berlin had a tragic...

Pioneering chimpanzee experiments revealed advanced intelligence and problem-solving skills. These apes demonstrated insight, challenging human uniqueness in reasoning. After the...

Baby chimps develop regional accents, new study finds

A new study suggests young chimpanzees develop local accents, with their calls becoming distinct enough for a computer to identify where they live.

Baby chimps develop regional accents, new study finds

A new study suggests young chimpanzees develop local accents, with their calls becoming distinct enough for a computer to identify where they live.

Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Chimpanzees May Have Been a Skilled Tree Climber

Learn how video footage of monkeys in West Africa has unlocked new answers in the debate over the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans. 

Humans and great apes show similar rhythmic pattern in laughter

Laughter compared in humans and four great ape species Study involved chimps, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans Human laughter is faster and sensitive to social context Research may...

Liberia’s rescued chimpanzees receive health checks

Many of the chimps at Second Chance were captured from the wild as infants before ending up at the laboratory and enduring decades of invasive and distressing experiments.

Study finds monkeys and apes form friendships with other species

A global study led by the University of Oxford revealed that monkeys and apes often play, groom, carry, and even adopt animals from other species.

New study into humans' closest ape relatives suggests physical touch can promote social harmony

Physical touch may be an important evolutionary tool to help manage social tension and keep the peace. That is according to a new study led by Durham University in the UK, analyzin...

Chimpanzees once used for vaccine research get health checks as part of long-term care

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A group of chimpanzees once used in laboratory hepatitis B vaccine experiments has received health checks at their new home in Liberia, in hopes of giving the...

Young Chimpanzees Develop Distinct Vocal Accents That Become Stronger With Age

Learn how grunts, whimpers, and laughter helped researchers uncover chimpanzee accents that differ between communities.

Monkeys keep pets and maintain friendships with other animals

This behaviour may shed light on one of the defining features of our own species: our extraordinary relationships with other animals

Last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees could have been a vertical climber, no matter its feet

New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, we'll learn it was a primate that climbed trees.

Great apes cuddle before conflict, offering clues to human behaviour

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Monkeys Just Challenged a Major Assumption About How Human Ancestors Climbed

A study shows that monkeys use their feet to climb trees as skillfully as chimpanzees. The way a primate climbs a tree can offer clues about how our own ancestors once moved. New r...

Children and monkeys share common understanding of geometry

With their ability to use tools, remember faces and even learn how to communicate with humans through sign language, nonhuman primates are considered to be among the smartest creat...

Study discovers that primates take care of animals outside their own family

Differences in human and great ape laughter reveal clues to the origin of speech

Humans are not the only animals that communicate. Birds sing to attract mates, dolphins use signature whistles that identify individuals, and many primates produce complex vocaliza...

'Second chance': Chimps used in hepatitis B experiments get health checks in Liberia

Orange-Lipped Monkey Photo Helps Scientists Identify New Species

The medium-sized monkey with an orange-colored patch around its nose and mouth, known locally as Likweli, joins a very short list of newly identified African monkey species.

Congolese monkey with mask-like face and strong BO is new to science

A black colobus monkey from a remote part of the Congo Basin rainforest, known locally as likweli, is thought to be severely threatened by poaching

Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans

You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can swing the basics. … This shared foundation suggests that our geometric intuition e...