Are chimpanzees sensitive to the effect of an object's properties on nut-cracking efficiency and plan their tool selection accordingly? An international team of researchers of the Max Planck Institute ...

Wild chimpanzees show reduced participation and performance in their tool-use behaviours as they experience old age, according to long-term video observations. The study, published today in eLife, ...

That’s what a team of scientists found after analysing more than 370 recordings from 11 chimpanzee communities in six groups across Africa. Their findings, published this month in Current Biology, ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility. Chimpanzees act as engineers when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide materials with more flexibility, a new ...

Chimpanzees don't just randomly use sticks to fish for termites. A study reveals they meticulously select plants with ideal mechanical properties, demonstrating an intuitive understanding of physics.

The female endangered chimpanzee used a stick to investigate a trail camera in a Gabon national park. Gabon ANPN/Panthera/Gaboma Multimedia and Production In 2015, a photograph of a lone male lion in ...

A study reveals chimpanzees exhibit evidence-based reasoning, challenging the belief that rational thought is uniquely human.

Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using medicinal plants - in multiple ways - to treat open wounds and other injuries. University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo ...

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