AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University Anthropology Professor Jill Pruetz long suspected that man-made changes influenced the aggressive behavior researchers have observed among chimpanzees. However, her ...

For years, anthropologists have watched wild chimpanzees "go ape" and attack each other in coordinated assaults. But until now, scientists were unsure whether interactions with humans had brought on ...

A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by rubbing genitals together, a behavior previously that's commonly seen in their ...

Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, and this adds to the fascination of learning how they behave and interact with each other. We know that they, like humans, live in social groups and that ...

New research on chimpanzees is forcing scientists to rethink where the line between human and animal minds really lies. In ...

It’s not unusual for chimpanzees to fight. Chimpanzee society is naturally aggressive and even violent. However, visitors at the Los Angeles Zoo probably didn’t expect this chimpanzee brawl to look ...

When I talk about my time in the field, and how wonderful and fascinating chimpanzees are, one thing that often surprises people is that chimps eat meat. Listeners are truly shocked—"Wait what?" they ...

At some point in your life you might have seen animals groom each other. This is something very common in chimpanzees, for example. Thanks to decades of work by primatologist Dr. Richard Wrangham and ...

Human's closest living relatives, Chimpanzees, primarily learn their communicative patterns from their mothers and maternal relatives, according to a new study. Newsweek has reached out to the study's ...