A century ago, millions of chimpanzees roamed across Africa, sharing 98.6 percent of our DNA and even crafting their own ...

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 ...

Chimpanzees are the only great apes, apart from humans, that have adapted to living on savannas as well as in forests. However, it is not yet well understood how the harsh ecological conditions of the ...

World Chimpanzee Day highlights why our closest living relatives are vital to science, forests, and understanding human ...

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, ...

The female endangered chimpanzee used a stick to investigate a trail camera in a Gabon national park. Gabon ANPN/Panthera/Gaboma Multimedia and Production In 2015, a photograph of a lone male lion in ...