Groups of western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) recognize ownership of specific regions; they are also more likely to avoid contact with other...
New research challenges the long-held idea that, because the brain of human ancestors called australopithecines was larger than that of many modern great...
Orangutans (genus Pongo) are the closest living relatives of Gigantopithecus blacki, the biggest primate that ever walked the Earth, according to new research...
A previously unknown species of great ape that was well adapted to both walking upright as well as using all four limbs while climbing has been identified...
Gorilla diets are characterized by large amounts of fruits and plants. Hard-object feeding is not generally associated with these great apes as the high...
According to new research, gorillas have complex social structures, from lifetime bonds forged between distant relations, to social tiers with striking...
In many group-living mammals, mothers may increase the reproductive success of their adult daughters. However, whether such maternal effects exist for...
Naïve chimpanzees are able to spontaneously use tools in order to excavate underground food, according to a new study, published in the journal PLoS ONE....
According to a new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, gestures of chimpanzees follow the same mathematical patterns — known...
Orangutans spontaneously make hook tools out of a straight piece of wire, using them to ‘fish’ for food.
Laumer et al show that orangutans can spontaneously...
Bonobos (Pan paniscus) and other apes, such as common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and gorillas (Gorilla sp.), have muscles long-believed to be only...
According to a study published in the journal PLoS Biology, two closely related great ape species — the bonobo (Pan paniscus) and the common chimpanzee...
Gorillas can spontaneously clean their food before eating it, without first watching another animal to learn from them, an international team of researchers...
An international team of researchers has identified a new species of orangutan living on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Named the Tapanuli orangutan...
Scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have discovered similarities between the emotional development of bonobos (Pan...
A new study led by Dr Salvador Moya-Sola from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, is the first to examine the pelvis fragments of an early hominid...
According to a new study led by Dr Gillian Forrester of the University of Sussex, a predominance to be right-handed is not a uniquely human trait but one...
