While humans might attempt to rizz someone up with a terrible chat-up line, male chimpanzees have other ways to attract the ...

Researchers at Kyoto University spent more than 600 hours studying 20 captive chimps to determine if urination is socially ...

"flowing down" from dominant chimps to more passive ones. “In humans, urinating together can be seen as a social phenomenon,” said coauthor Ena Onishi of Kyoto University. “An Italian ...

It looks like humans aren’t the only ones who occasionally ... noticing that when one chimp decided to pee, others would often follow suit. This phenomenon might be shaped by the social ...

A new study shows that peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, making it “the first study to investigate contagious urination in animals, including humans,” says Shinya Yamamoto, an animal ...

Well, not in so many words. But the study, which involved 20 captive chimpanzees at the Kumamoto Sanctuary at Kyoto University, does suggest that when one chimp urinates, others urinate too. “In ...

A new international research project published in the journal Science has revealed how the genes that help chimpanzees live in forest or dry savannah habitats are the same genes that could protect ...

But in the same situation, when facing the easy task, the chimps seemed distracted, and their performance level dropped. “Humans under the watching eyes of colleagues care more about how the ...

While this may seem odd to humans, who are far more inclined to seek privacy rather than intimacy when urinating, the chimps’ behavior in fact directly relates to our own. This behavior may help ...

Related: Like humans, chimps often perform tasks differently when crowds are watching. ] This unexpected finding related to social hierarchy and ranking could reflect some kind of hidden ...