Wild chimpanzees in Senegal were filmed doing something researchers have long debated whether apes are even capable of: ...

Chimps are the poster children for tool use in animals after their remarkable behavior was first recorded by the late, great ...

Wild chimps aren't just watching and learning—they're literally handing down the tools of the trade. New camera footage from ...

New research led by University of Oxford researchers has found that old age likely impacts the habitual tool-use behaviors of some wild chimpanzees—although the extent to which different individuals ...

The post Chimpanzees Sharpen Spears with Their Teeth to Hunt appeared first on A-Z Animals. Humans often use weapons when hunting or defending themselves. However, we are not the only animals that ...

Young chimpanzees are remarkably innovative, inventing tools and improving on ones that adults use—and this technical know-how could hold the key to better appreciating the role of children in the ...

Wild chimpanzees show reduced participation and performance in their tool-use behaviours as they experience old age, according to long-term video observations. The study, published today in eLife, ...

Place the nut on a hard, flat rock. Take a heavy hammer rock, and pound the nut. The chimps must have feasted well and often there under the trees by a black-water river. Stones excavated from a ...

Two-thirds of a century after Jane Goodall observed ‘David Greybeard’ break off a twig to fashion a fishing rod for termites, researchers following in her footsteps have found that adult chimpanzees ...