Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date back to ...

A recent study led by the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior has revealed that wild ...

The animal kingdom is chock full of nutcrackers and that skill can even vary between individual animals. Some chimpanzees appear to be more efficient at using tools to crack nuts than others within ...

To many people’s surprise, hunting and eating meat is a regular part of wild chimpanzee life. Chimps' hunting varies between ...

Study finds some chimps twice as skilled at nut-cracking, highlighting 25 years of research on intelligence and tool use.

Scientists piece together genetic links between chimpanzee groups over thousands of years and discovered a surprisingly ...

New research shows significant variation in the nut-cracking skills of chimpanzees, suggesting cognitive differences.

Planet Of The Apes may have been on to something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills – a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations ...

Human beings are animals, evolved from ancestral great apes. We are part of nature and yet unique in many ways.

In this new study, the researchers investigated the actions of wild chimpanzees -- our closest relatives -- whilst using tools, and whether these appeared to be organised into sequences with ...

The study focused on one of the most complex actions performed by primates: nut cracking using stone tools. In the forests of the village of Bossou in Guinea, chimpanzees form an isolated ...

“It was really surprising to find no difference in efficiency between male and female chimps, because a female bias in tool use efficiency has been found in the past in chimpanzees and bonobos ...