May 14, 2025 by News Staff

Primatologists have documented and analyzed both previously reported and newly observed instances of self-directed and other-directed wound care, snare...

Nov 12, 2024 by News Staff

Human cognitive performance can be significantly influenced by the presence of audience members. While often associated with reputation management, which...

Dec 19, 2023 by News Staff

While human social memory lasts decades and tracks relationships, less is known about non-human ape long-term memory. In a new paper published in the Proceedings...

Sep 7, 2023 by News Staff

Early humans and apes likely evolved free-moving shoulders and flexible elbows to slow their descent from trees as gravity pulled on their heavier bodies,...

Dec 15, 2022 by News Staff

Bipedalism — walking upright on two legs — us a defining feature of the human lineage. It is thought to have evolved as forests retreated in...

Jun 28, 2022 by News Staff

Digging wells to access or filter drinking water is a relatively rare behavior in the animal kingdom — only a handful of species have been documented...

Aug 12, 2021 by News Staff

In a paper published this week in the journal iScience, an international team of researchers documented chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan...

Dec 15, 2020 by News Staff

By 4 months of age, the cognitive performance of common ravens (Corvus corax) in experimental tasks is similar to those of two great ape species, chimpanzees...

Jun 11, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers in the UK has discovered that some individuals of the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), particularly those affected by myocardial...