A new study sheds light on the role of sexual behavior in apes, which has implications for understanding its evolutionary ...

A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

New research suggests gorillas may be just as self-aware as chimpanzees, despite struggling with the mirror test.

It is published in the journal Animal Behaviour. Primates, including both monkeys and great apes, live in complex social environments where paying attention to others is crucial for interaction ...

A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, culture and the meaning of sharing a language ...

This study is the first to explore social memory development in non-human great apes. It is published in the journal Animal Behaviour. Primates, including both monkeys and great apes, live in ...