Some male chimpanzees use covert physical gestures to sneakily solicit sex. According to a new study, these mating moves vary ...

Researchers at Kyoto University spent more than 600 hours studying 20 captive chimps to determine if urination is socially ...

For millennia, the western chimpanzees of Taï National Park in Ivory Coast have communicated with each other in a dialect of ...

If you see or hear someone yawn, you might suddenly feel the urge to do the same, thanks to a well-studied phenomenon known as “contagious yawning.” Now, new research suggests urination may function ...

New research seems to suggest bonobos could possess some form of theory of mind. But there's a bit more to it than that.

Humans have caused the loss of the only male chimpanzee in one social group — and as a result at least one traditional ...

Humans are known to invent private hand gestures. Chimps in the wild do, too, a new study suggests. By Brandon Keim Parents and their children, or people who know each other well, often share some ...

there do seem to be some inherent differences in the nature of group peeing between humans and chimpanzees, the researchers say. And that raises the question of whether other primates have their ...

Why the chimps do this remains a mystery ... Whale Songs: Humpback whales’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

While humans might attempt to rizz someone up with a terrible chat-up line, male chimpanzees have other ways to attract the ...

“In humans, we know that our decision to urinate ... to the New York Times’ Annie Roth. Why do chimps seem to pee at the same time? The study doesn’t answer that question definitively ...