WASHINGTON - "Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills -- a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through ...

There is no doubt that a wide variety of nonhuman animals (animals) display different local cultural traditions. 1 Chimpanzees are no exception, and a recent essay published in Nature Human Behaviour ...

Males and females share intelligence but use it differently, with males focusing on alliances and females on caregiving and ...

"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills -- a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations ...

Think you know monkeys? From bananas to big-screen stereotypes, Dr. Paul Garber busts the biggest monkey myths with real ...

"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills -- a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations ...

In this combination of photos provided by researchers, a wild male chimpanzee drums on a buttress tree while producing a pant-hoot call as he joins his groupmates in the Budongo Forest of Uganda in ...

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees and humans last shared a common ancestor around 6 million years ago. Scientists suspect this ancient ...