Like humans, chimpanzees can rise to the occasion in front of a large audience or fail miserably, scientists said. The team performed an experiment on six chimpanzees that have learned to use ...

Some chimpanzees seem to use sexual behaviour like genital rubbing to manage stressful situations, which shows they aren’t as different from hypersexual bonobos – our other closest living ape ...

A new study finds that unlike humans, Chimpanzees are entirely selfish creatures who act in their own interests, turning conceived wisdom on its head. The team from the universities of Manchester, ...

This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. A few years ago, while setting up camp deep in the Congolese rain forest, Dave Morgan and Crickette Sanz heard a ...