A blade of grass tucked behind an ear sparked a fashion craze that spread through an entire community, and the trendsetters ...

Is there anything more human than gathering in groups to share food and partake in a fermented beverage or two (or three, or….)? Researchers have caught wild chimpanzees on camera engaging in what ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found chimpanzees eating fermented fruit in their native habitats consume the equivalent of nearly two alcoholic drinks per day.

Chimps have accents too, reveals a new study. Researchers found that chimpanzees develop dialect as youngsters. They ...

Right now, there's a quiz bouncing around social media that can pin down where your dialect is from using just 24 questions. Originally developed by Harvard linguists more than 20 years ago, the quiz ...

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Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important role in primate social life. By Annie Roth Ena Onishi, a doctoral student ...

In the forests of Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire, chimps crowd into fig and plum trees, feasting on fruit that's sweet, soft and just a little boozy. A new study shows those daily snacks quietly add up to ...

Bumblebees and chimpanzees can learn skills from their peers so complicated that they could never have mastered them on their own, an ability previously thought to be unique to humans, two studies ...

Female chimps living in an East African forest experience menopause and then survive years, even decades, after becoming biologically unable to reproduce. The apes are the first known examples of wild ...

As opposing armies headed along the dusty roads converging on Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Union Brigadier General John Buford recognized and seized the high ground. On the morning of July 1, his cavalry ...

You are never too old to play — a maxim that even adult chimpanzees seem to follow. Young chimpanzees are already known to get many benefits from playing. But it seems to also be more important among ...