Most people never think twice about their ears, until they catch a strange little twitch they can't explain. It might happen after a sudden noise or while trying to focus on a distant sound. These ...

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Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social bonds. A new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University ...

"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." That's the longest string of words that Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who scientists raised as a human and taught sign ...

“One of the main findings is that all chimpanzee kids are risky, and that infant and juvenile chimpanzees are even more risky ...

As scientists have studied the chimpanzee, they’ve found more and more similarities between humans and their closest living relatives. But when it comes to the courts, chimps and humans couldn’t be ...

Different populations of chimpanzees showed varying behaviours - Copyright Handout/AFP Kathelijne Koops Different populations of chimpanzees showed varying behaviours ...

Between 1998 and 2009, John Mitani witnessed 18 murders firsthand, and found circumstantial evidence for three more. But no police were ever called, for these killers were all chimpanzees, from the ...

The frequently cited 99% similarity between human and chimp DNA overlooks key differences in the genomes.