Topping the agenda at President Donald Trump's meeting with South Africa's president at the White House this week is the ...

Hygiene is important among chimpanzees, even after sex! Wiping after using the toilet or cleaning up after sex is basic hygiene for humans.

Language processing in humans depends on the neuronal connection between language areas in the brain. Until recently, this ...

Language Connection: Researchers discovered a neuronal connection related to language in chimpanzee brains, previously ...

Field observers followed mother-infant pairs in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire, for four years. They noted the parenting ...

The new study published today in Nature Human Behaviour delivers the first field evidence that wild chimpanzees form ...

(SOUNDBITE OF INSECTS CHIRPING) JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: One critical element of spoken language is rhythm, so scientists have been studying the beats produced by wild chimps in the African rainforest.

New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language.

We studied large social groups at two African sanctuaries, chimpanzees in Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia and bonobos at the Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

We studied large social groups at two African sanctuaries, chimpanzees in Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia and bonobos at the Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

The African Union has lifted sanctions against Gabon, it said in a statement on Wednesday, after the central African nation was suspended from the organisation following a coup in August 2023.