Bhubaneswar: Nandankanan Zoological Park welcomed its newest member as chimpanzee Durga gave birth to her first baby on Thursday morning, taking the zoo's chimpanzee population to eight.

And while the Budongo chimps use leaf clip to solicit mates, Taï chimps reserve leaf clip for play or drumming. The chimpanzees live in similarly forested areas with similar leaves, similar trees, and ...

t. verus, is classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List. These chimpanzees live in open, dry and seasonal habitats where animal protein is hard to find, making ants a particularly ...

By Annie Roth Ena Onishi, a doctoral student at Kyoto University, has spent over 600 hours watching chimpanzees urinating. She has a good reason for all that peeping, though. She is part of a team ...

Hate waiting in line for the bathroom? Chimpanzees have a social solution: Go all at once. A new study shows that peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, making it “the first study to investigate ...

A new paper published in Current Biology suggests a novel twist on an old saying: Instead of "monkey see, monkey do," the paper proposes "chimp see, chimp pee." Well, not in so many words. But the ...

A study out this week shows that peeing can sometimes be contagious among chimpanzees, too. Scientists at Kyoto University in Japan led the research, which was published Monday in the journal ...

A new study has found that chimpanzees may be far from shy bathroomgoers. A team of researchers spent more than 600 hours studying 20 captive chimpanzees to determine that chimps may experience ...

Still, Onishi became curious when she noticed the behavior among the chimpanzees she was observing as a doctoral student at Kyoto University Wildlife Research Center. She knew about well-studied ...

Humans are known to invent private hand gestures. Chimps in the wild do, too, a new study suggests. By Brandon Keim Parents and their children, or people who know each other well, often share some ...