Mom chimps play with babies even when food is scarce

The persistence of mom chimps playing with their babies, even in times of food scarcity, is crucial for their development.

Mike Silver-Tufts • futurity
March 18, 2024 ~8 min

Chimps recognize friends and family decades later

Researchers have found evidence that apes and chimps have the longest nonhuman memory ever recorded.

UC Berkeley • futurity
Dec. 20, 2023 ~8 min


Insight into evolution of cooperation

As one of our closest living animal relatives, bonobos show humanlike ability to work together outside social borders in new study.

Anne J. Manning • harvard
Nov. 17, 2023 ~5 min

Team finds first proof chimpanzees go through menopause

Female humans and some whales aren't the only mammals to go through menopause. A new study finds wild chimpanzees do, too.

Kyle Mittan-U. Arizona • futurity
Oct. 27, 2023 ~8 min

Chimpanzees are not pets, no matter what social media tells you

Why wild chimpanzees end up as pets and how we can keep them in the wild.

Jake Brooker, Research Associate in the Department of Psychology, Durham University • conversation
Sept. 7, 2023 ~7 min

Did hetero love evolve from same-sex friendship?

A new hypothesis 'raises the possibility that romantic love in humans finds its origin in same-sex friendships of apes."

UT Austin • futurity
June 7, 2023 ~4 min

Chimps combine sounds to communicate greater meaning

Like humans, chimps can combine words into phrases to communicate more meaning. What's more, other chimps can understand those combinations.

Rita Ziegler-Zurich • futurity
May 8, 2023 ~4 min

Genetics track mining’s threat to endangered chimps

Researchers are using genetic information from western chimpanzees in Guinea to evaluate the effects of mining on the endangered species.

U. Zurich • futurity
March 27, 2023 ~5 min


Three surprising reasons human actions threaten endangered primates

Most of us have heard of the dangers of deforestation but there are other more subtle ways that human beings can endanger monkeys, apes and lemurs.

Sian Waters, Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University • conversation
Feb. 6, 2023 ~6 min

Teen chimps gamble on winning it big

Like some teenagers, young chimps are willing to take a risk on the possibility of a big payout. Adult apes are more likely to hedge bets.

Jared Wadley-Michigan • futurity
Jan. 25, 2023 ~4 min

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