Bonobos and chimpanzees use friendly physical contact to manage social stress before meals. New research shows both species ...

Pioneering chimpanzee experiments revealed advanced intelligence and problem-solving skills. These apes demonstrated insight, challenging human uniqueness in reasoning. After their research, the ...

Physical touch may be an important evolutionary tool to help manage social tension and keep the peace. That is according to a ...

This behavior is further evidence of chimpanzees' deep interaction with their environment," added Morgan "On a daily and ...

More often, apes reach out to one another with friendly touch: embracing, patting and making gentle contact.” Chimpanzees ...

During an eight-month-long research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia, we studied consolation: the ...

The Rock in the Armpit Before a sea otter dives for a clam, it often tucks a flat stone under its forearm, a pocket it keeps ...

A Durham University-led study of bonobos and chimpanzees suggests physical touch evolved as a key way of reducing social tension millions of years ago.

Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, prominent primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian, has died. Announced by the Jane Goodall Institute on Wednesday, Goodall passed in her sleep at 91. Tributes have ...

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