A new study revealed that great apes tease one another just like humans do, including hair pulling, poking, staring in faces ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have examined how social models ...

They might live in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, but orangutans are still some of the most human-like creatures you can find in the wild. We share over 96% of the same DNA. “When ...

Adult apes show improved memory from social interaction by observing human actions. Younger apes lack this memory boost.

A project testing great apes’ puzzle-solving abilities could offer insight into the mental abilities underpinning language. Solving the puzzles involves the same sorts of mental abilities ...

Though we don't look much like them, we humans have a lot in common with bonobos and the three other great apes—the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan. Compared to the lesser primates ...

“Because we stayed, we found out things about the great apes that would have been impossible to find out in other ways. So, I think it’s that accumulation of data, of staying, that helps serve ...

The cerebellum is a section of the brain critical to tool use. Great apes have a cerebellum that is on average 45% bigger than a monkey’s. Experiments showed chimps and orang-utans using up to 5 ...

Adult great apes exhibit enhanced memory for social events, remembering towers built by a human hand better than those constructed by a mechanical claw. This effect is attributed to increased ...