A new study has documented what may be the first observed “civil war” in wild chimpanzees. Primatologist Aaron Sandel wrote in the research published in the journal Science, that the first time he saw ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University and Universidad Carlos III de ...

For decades, the 200 Ngogo chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, lived what seemed a calm and normal existence. Males and females hunted together, groomed each other and went on patrols through ...

We have recently read a lot about the remarkable life's work of the great chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, who passed away on 1 October 2025. We learned that the Kenyan archaeologist and ...

For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: adolescence. It's also unusual.

Researchers have documented a permanent split between the largest-known group of wild chimpanzees, which erupted into a lethal civil war over the past several years — findings that could help ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: In a new study published in the journal eLife, scientists from Stanford ...

A new study from Uganda shows that chimpanzee culture and learning are much more complex than scientists once believed.