For most wild chimpanzees, tool use is an important part of life -- but learning these skills is no simple feat. Wild chimpanzees transfer tools to each other, and this behavior has previously ...

Chimpanzees often use what researchers call “tool sets,” in which at least two tools are used in a particular sequence to achieve a goal. In Gabon, a group of chimpanzees extracts honey using ...

A horrifying incident took place in Bossou, Guinea, when a well-known chimpanzee, famous for its tool-using abilities, brutally attacked and killed an eight-month-old baby girl.

“In wild chimpanzees, the intricacies of tool use learning continue into adulthood," the authors said in a statement. "This pattern supports ideas that large brains across hominids allow ...

The first documented evidence of wild chimpanzee mothers teaching their offspring to use tools has been captured by video cameras set to record chimpanzee tool-using activity at termite mounds in ...

Teach a chimpanzee to fish for insects to eat, and you feed her for a lifetime. Teach her a better way to use tools in gathering prey, and you may change the course of evolution. For most wild ...

Footage from Gabon’s Batéké Plateau National Park reveals a rare moment of an endangered chimpanzee using a tool, the first-of-its-kind footage from Gabon ...

That observation, combined with the close phylogenetic relationship with humans, made chimpanzees a good comparative model for understanding how tools are made and used by hominins. With the 2007 ...

First Case of Prehistoric Chimp Tools. Though there were no chimpanzee remains at the settlement, testing by archaeologists revealed the tool-laden camp was most likely used by the Great Ape.

Chimpanzees in the Congo have developed specialized "tool kits" to forage for army ants, reveals new research published Sept. 3 in the American Journal of Primatology. This not only provides the ...

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Chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park demonstrated engineering skills by carefully selecting specific plants to craft flexible tools for termite fishing, according to new research ...