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 ...

In recent decades, scientists have clearly demonstrated that chimpanzees, like humans, pass on complex cultures such as tool ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, has discovered that ...

The discovery that chimpanzees use tools to fish for termites revolutionized our understanding of their abilities — but we still don’t have crucial context to help us understand termite fishing and ...

Many younger people know the pain of trying to teach an older person how to print a PDF or navigate the internet. But, of course, some people keep with the times and still learn how to use new tools ...

The female endangered chimpanzee used a stick to investigate a trail camera in a Gabon national park. Gabon ANPN/Panthera/Gaboma Multimedia and Production In 2015, a photograph of a lone male lion in ...

Are chimpanzees sensitive to the effect of an object's properties on nut-cracking efficiency and plan their tool selection accordingly? An international team of researchers of the Max Planck Institute ...

Last week a few people wrote to me about a very interesting essay by Dr. Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen and his colleagues in Scientific Reports titled "Tool use for corpse cleaning in chimpanzees." It ...