For the first time known to scientists, a team has documented chimps sharing alcoholic fruit. Anna Bowland / Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project / University of Exeter For the first time, scientists have ...

Wild chimpanzees scoffing fermented fruit consume the equivalent of two glasses of wine per day, factoring in their body size compared with us. It has long been known that many primates, including ...

In the forests of Uganda, wild chimpanzees have been caught on camera doing something startlingly human: treating each other’s wounds with leaves and chewed-up plants. In a behavior that hints at ...

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 ...

New research suggests wild chimpanzees have developed a far more nuanced communication system than previously realized, using several mechanisms that combine their vocalizations to create new meaning.

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...