AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University Anthropology Professor Jill Pruetz long suspected that man-made changes influenced the aggressive behavior researchers have observed among chimpanzees. However, her ...
Bonobo chimpanzees are unique among primates because they do not kill other bonobos. … They still showed increased alertness ...
Chimpanzees show physical risk taking peaks in infancy, not adolescence, highlighting the powerful role of supervision in ...
The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...
Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social ...
Chimpanzees and bonobos are among the closest relatives of humans. They share more than 98% of our DNA. Yet, these primates ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Animal researchers have known for some time that chimpanzees are very much like us. But a new study shows that just as we go to war sometimes to protect our territory and way of life, ...
Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos were more likely than chimpanzees to comfort others in distress. The study ...
Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, and this adds to the fascination of learning how they behave and interact with each other. We know that they, like humans, live in social groups and that ...