In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans ...

Picture a baby chimp clinging to its mother's back, wide eyes taking in everything around it. Just like human babies, these little ones start life completely helpless, relying on their mom for ...

Photo: Bill Wallauer For more than 65 years, research from Gombe has offered an extraordinary window into the lives of wild ...

Famed primatologist Jane Goodall, who died this week, had a special connection to Palm Beach County. Journalist Charles McKenzie recalls shadowing Goodall in the mid-1990s and being deeply impressed ...

A chimpanzee mother vocalizes while her offspring looks on. Young chimpanzees learn their communication style from their mother and maternal relatives, but show little similarity to the communication ...

Human's closest living relatives, Chimpanzees, primarily learn their communicative patterns from their mothers and maternal relatives, according to a new study. Newsweek has reached out to the study's ...

New research on chimpanzees is forcing scientists to rethink where the line between human and animal minds really lies. In carefully designed experiments, chimps are not just grabbing at treats or ...