Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are native to the forests and savannas of central and western Africa. These creatures are our closest living relatives and share approximately 98.8% of our DNA. Similar ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found chimpanzees eating fermented fruit in their native habitats consume the equivalent of nearly two alcoholic drinks per day.

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In an exciting first that highlights a mysterious aspect of human technological evolution, chimpanzees impressively engineer tools to fish for termites in Tanzania. For chimpanzees, termites might be ...