Save the Chimps is an organization unlike any other. The world’s largest privately funded chimpanzee sanctuary, it’s home to ...

A new study has found that chimpanzees may be far ... synchronized by observing the behavior of others. Simply put, if a chimp sees another urinate, it will too. The study was led by Ena Onishi ...

Starting on January 29th, 2020, randomchimpevent [3] [4] posted more memes which warned users about the "random chimp event" and implied that the event is an organized attack by a group of chimpanzees ...

This discovery adds a new layer to the ongoing debate about the roots of human language. While chimpanzee gestures don’t meet the strict criteria of human language, they demonstrate how meaning ...

Chimps in the wild do, too, a new study suggests ... The same is true of Beryl, a chimpanzee living in Kibale National Park, in Uganda, and her young daughter, Lindsay. When Lindsay wants to ...

A new study shows that peeing is contagious in ... “This resemblance to certain human behaviors piqued my curiosity. In Japan, my home country, there is a specific term called ‘Tsureshon ...

A recent study in the journal Current Biology led by scientists at Kyoto University's Wildlife Research Center found that if one individual chimp starts ... all of this new data, more questions ...

People often go to the bathroom in groups, and according to new research chimpanzees do the ... They found that when one chimpanzee in the group peed, others were more likely to follow.

A study published January 20 in the journal Current Biology finds that when one chimpanzee urinates, the others in a group are more likely to follow. The phenomenon is called “contagious ...

But urination — a physiological need — adds a new dimension to understanding how social cues can permeate even the most basic behaviors. By comparing chimpanzee behavior with computer ...