A group of chimpanzees gather to examine a visitor’s prosthetic leg, even calling others over to take a closer look.

Chimpanzees at Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary can do what was once considered an exclusively human trait: form expectations on the basis of evidence, but revise them on learning new facts.

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In an attempt to understand our own fascination with the shiny minerals, researchers gave some to chimps. A chimp named Toti attentively observes a quartz crystal at a rehabilitation facility in Spain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty years ago, scientists embarked on an experiment to teach American Sign Language to chimpanzees—and ultimately prove humans ...

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The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...