A comical attempt at teamwork between two chimpanzees at Beijing Zoo takes a dramatic turn when a simple nut-cracking ...

New research on chimpanzees is forcing scientists to rethink where the line between human and animal minds really lies. In carefully designed experiments, chimps are not just grabbing at treats or ...

After more recent exposés on the experience of chimpanzees in the southwest, it's worth looking back at the interview series ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...

When caretakers tried to retrieve the crystal from the chimps’ enclosure, they had to exchange it for favoured snacks of bananas and yoghurt. A second experiment showed that the chimps could identify ...

Chimpanzees in one part of Guinea crack and eat nuts while others declined to do so even when offered tools, research published on Monday found, and the difference could shed light on their culture.

And chimps outperform humans. I once watched Matsuzawa show videos of his experiments with Ai and Ayumu at a conference attended by the world’s leading chimp researchers, including Jane Goodall, ...

1) That the knowledge gained must be necessary to advance the public’s health; 2) There must be no other research model by which the knowledge could be obtained, and the research cannot be ethically ...

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

Source: Ruben van Kuik, via Wikimedia Commons. How do scientists study the evolution of human culture and cognition? There aren’t any early hominins around—but there are chimpanzees, our closest ...