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

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

A study has revealed that chimpanzees demonstrate teaching behaviors by handing tools to their young and directly demonstrating how to use them. This follows Jane Goodall’s 1960 discovery that ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...