Japanese researchers uncovered a surprising behavior among chimpanzees that may shed light on the social dynamics of these primates. A team led by Professor Shinya Yamamoto from Kyoto University ...

To deduce whether urination was contagious, researchers analyzed 600 hours of video footage depicting the 20 chimps at Kumamoto. During that time, they documented more than 1,328 urination events.

A new paper published in Current Biology suggests a novel twist on an old saying: Instead of "monkey see, monkey do," the paper proposes "chimp see, chimp pee." Well, not in so many words. But the ...

Turns out, chimps aren’t just yawning together anymore. A new study shows they also have a “contagious urination” trend. Researchers found that when one chimp pees, others are more likely to ...

They found that the shorter the distance between chimps in a group, the more likely they would relieve themselves within just over three minutes after the first one. The chance of chimpanzees ...

Humans are known to invent private hand gestures. Chimps in the wild do, too, a new study suggests. By Brandon Keim Parents and their children, or people who know each other well, often share some ...

They observed captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary for hundreds of hours, noticing that when one chimp decided to pee, others would often follow suit. This phenomenon might be ...

A decade ago humanity launched around 200 objects into space per year. Now we launch more than 2,600, with no prospects for slowing down. This rapid expansion of human activity in outer space has ...

Furthermore, the closer a chimp is to the first urinator, the more likely it is to follow suit. Individuals with a lower dominance status were more likely to follow the urination of others.

Imagine three zones around each urinating chimpanzee: within arm’s reach, within about 10 feet, and farther away. The closer other chimps were to the one urinating, the more likely they were to follow ...

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 ...

Onishi, et al decided to study the phenomenon after noticing that many chimps in the sanctuary seemed to synchronize when they peed, and they wondered whether the phenomenon might be similar to ...