A series of stunning findings about great apes’ mental capabilities in recent years has transformed how we see our closest relatives ...
A once large and peaceful group of chimpanzees in the western forests of Uganda has now split into two, causing a rare “civil ...
An unusually large troop of chimpanzees displayed cooperation and social cohesion for decades, until something shifted and ...
A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.
Bonobos and chimps are our closest living links to the six million-year-old ancestor from which both they and we descended. As primatologist Frans de Waal points out, Kano's work "was a major ...
A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers ...
The long-running conflict in a formerly unified community, the second ever observed, adds to Jane Goodall’s studies about a ...
One day in June 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was watching chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park when he saw ...