World Chimpanzee Day highlights why our closest living relatives are vital to science, forests, and understanding human ...

Bonobos and chimpanzees use friendly physical contact to manage social stress before meals. New research shows both species ...

Physical touch may be an important evolutionary tool to help manage social tension and keep the peace. That is according to a ...

Chimpanzees (often colloquially “chimps”) are African great apes in the genus Pan, which has two living species: the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and the bonobo (Pan paniscus). The common ...

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World Chimpanzee Day 2026 is observed every year on July 14. Here are some highlights of world's five rarest chimpanzee ...

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results, published in Current ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are two closely related species of great apes and share much of their DNA with humans. Though they appear similar, they differ significantly in behavior, social structure, and ...

When humans have conversations, we take turns speaking, sometimes even interrupting each other. Now, a study published in Current Biology on Monday reports that chimpanzees follow a similar ...