It’s not unusual for chimpanzees to fight. Chimpanzee society is naturally aggressive and even violent. However, visitors at ...

Staff say 18-year-old chimpanzee Sile has been accepted into the zoo's troupe with an "unheard of" warm welcome in just days.

Save the Chimps is an organization unlike any other. The world’s largest privately funded chimpanzee sanctuary, it’s home to ...

as in the case of grooming and yawning. Instead, the researchers found that rank played a role. Low-ranking individuals were more likely than others to start peeing if a chimp nearby did.

Rockhampton Zoo's newest chimpanzee, Sile, is settling in well with her new troop after arriving from Sydney Zoo in ...

long scratch that invites grooming; and a two-footed stomp that means “Stop that!” No other chimpanzees are known to use the hand-eye gesture like Lindsay and Beryl do. It’s their own ...

Social closeness, measured by time in close proximity and grooming with another chimpanzee, had no effect on the peeing phenomenon — unlike with social yawning, which increases in socially ...

Scientists suggest captive chimpanzees engage in ‘socially contagious ... based on how much time they spend grooming or hanging out with each other—did not appear to influence the contagious ...

World Bonobo Day highlights the urgent need to protect bonobos from habitat destruction, poaching, and deforestation.

Our research suggests that this phenomenon may have deep evolutionary roots.” Onishi, et al decided to study the phenomenon after noticing that many chimps in the sanctuary seemed to synchronize when ...

According to Live Science, social proximity was not the determining factor in which chimpanzee followed another in urination, unlike grooming and yawning. "This is the first study to investigate ...