A recent study on chimpanzees in Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, revealed that chimpanzees are losing traditions of male mating gestures. This coincides with declining chimpanzee ...

“Monkey see, monkey do” isn’t just a playground aphorism, it’s a pretty apt way of describing the behavior of us primates. Some of our contagious behaviors are involuntary; for example, if someone ...

Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important role in primate social life. By Annie Roth Ena Onishi, a doctoral student ...

Chimpanzees and people already share much when it comes to our evolutionary history, and the latest research shows we have a similar appreciation for fairness as well. A study published in the ...

At some point in your life you might have seen animals groom each other. This is something very common in chimpanzees, for example. Thanks to decades of work by primatologist Dr. Richard Wrangham and ...

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that existed in the common ancestor of humans and apes six million years ago. Humans ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Jane Goodall’s words inspired thousands. Her exploration into the unknown changed science. Her mere presence spoke volumes. “As kind and generous as she was to chimpanzees, she was ...

"Urination, a seemingly simple physiological act, can also spread socially within a group." A recent study in the journal Current Biology led by scientists at Kyoto University's Wildlife Research ...