Chimpanzee society is naturally aggressive and even violent. However, visitors at the Los Angeles Zoo probably didn’t expect this chimpanzee brawl to look like a sword fight.

It’s not unusual for chimpanzees to fight. Chimpanzee society is naturally aggressive and even violent. However, visitors at the Los Angeles Zoo probably didn’t expect this chimpanzee brawl to look ...

Hate waiting in line for the bathroom? Chimpanzees have a social solution: Go all at once. A new study shows that peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, making it “the first study to investigate ...

Rockhampton Zoo staff watched anxiously as new chimpanzee Sile met her new troop to see if she would be welcomed into the group. In a moment of connection, Sile was embraced by young chimp Gandali ...

The same is true of Beryl, a chimpanzee living in Kibale National Park, in Uganda, and her young daughter, Lindsay. When Lindsay wants to climb on her mother’s back and travel, she puts one hand ...

In HBO's docuseries Chimp Crazy, the minds behind the COVID-19 pandemic sensation Tiger King turn to another exotic animal. At the heart of the series is Tonia Haddix, the self-described ...

Scientists suggest captive chimpanzees engage in ‘socially contagious urination’—that is, when one primate starts peeing, others quickly follow suit Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent A new ...

"Urination, a seemingly simple physiological act, can also spread socially within a group." A recent study in the journal Current Biology led by scientists at Kyoto University's Wildlife Research ...

In a new paper in the journal Current Biology, scientists report socially contagious urination in chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, as measured through all-occurrence recording of 20 captive ...

Back in the 1930s, a human baby aged just 10 months old was forced to grow-up alongside a chimpanzee, but the experiment had tragic results. Animal psychologists Winthrop Niles Kellogg and his ...

When a male chimpanzee wants to hit on a female without causing a scene, he sometimes has to get a little creative. "The alpha male, he can mate with whoever he wants, whenever he wants ...

Starting on January 29th, 2020, randomchimpevent [3] [4] posted more memes which warned users about the "random chimp event" and implied that the event is an organized attack by a group of chimpanzees ...