The Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium mapped the 3 billion nucleotides that compose the genetic material of the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), the only nonhuman primate to have ...

This discovery comes from analysing five wild communities of common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) living in East Africa. Researchers studied 8,559 gestures by 252 chimpanzees, making it one of the ...

Female chimps who migrate to new social groups bring skills and technology with them, helping to drive development of ...

Like humans, wild chimpanzees engage in snappy, turn-taking conversations, where they wait just a fraction of a second for ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...

"The most common version of it is, it was either a monkey or a chimpanzee escaped, and it ran off into the hills. They found it like a few weeks later, and that was how the zoo was born." ...