this opens up many new avenues for us to understand how HARs contributed to the evolution of the brain.” Reference: Pal A, Noble MA, Morales M, et al. Resolving the three-dimensional interactome of ...

However, visitors at the Los Angeles Zoo probably didn’t expect this chimpanzee brawl to look like a sword fight. In the video above, one of the chimpanzees decides a stick makes a handy weapon ...

The same is true of Beryl, a chimpanzee living in Kibale National Park, in Uganda, and her young daughter, Lindsay. When Lindsay wants to climb on her mother’s back and travel, she puts one hand ...

Simply put, if a chimp sees another urinate, it will too. The study was led by Ena Onishi, a doctoral student at Kyoto University's Wildlife Research Center in Japan. The concept of socially ...

They found that when one chimpanzee in the group peed, others were more likely to follow. The researchers recorded the number of urinations that occurred within 60 seconds of one another ...

Beryl, a chimpanzee mother, and her daughter Lindsay, have created a unique gesture that no other chimps in their community use. Their story is not just about communication—it’s about the ...

San Francisco-based studio Collins was keen to keep Mailchimp’s much-loved winking chimp mascot Freddie, but gave him a slicker overall look. The studio also replaced the previous logotype with a ...

An analysis of those observations revealed that chimps were likely to pee together, and if a chimp was near an individual that was urinating, it too was more likely to start peeing — suggesting ...

A study published January 20 in the journal Current Biology finds that when one chimpanzee urinates, the others in a group are more likely to follow. The phenomenon is called “contagious ...

"Urination, a seemingly simple physiological act, can also spread socially within a group." A recent study in the journal Current Biology led by scientists at Kyoto University's Wildlife Research ...