Al and Kamaka, two old friends who are both in their 50s, are experiencing a whole new world. Part of what's novel: females. "Right off the bat, they were just enamored with the ladies in the group," ...

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 ...

The Conversation revealed its findings last month as part of the Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee, sharing that evidence shows different populations of chimpanzees "have evolved genetic ...

Researchers at the University of College London recently undertook a massive study to better understand chimps. The team analyzed data from fecal samples of 828 wild chimpanzees across 30 populations, ...

The study of rhythmic structures, which appears in the journal Current Biology, analyzed the drumming patterns of chimps from the rainforests in East and West Africa. The trees in those rainforests ...