Compared with humans, chimp infants appear to act as daredevils earlier in life, according to a paper published today in ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

And chimps outperform humans. I once watched Matsuzawa show videos of his experiments with Ai and Ayumu at a conference attended by the world’s leading chimp researchers, including Jane Goodall, ...

A female chimpanzee known for her ability to recognize letters and numbers has died of old age and multiple organ failure at ...

A group of 23 chimpanzees previously used in biomedical experiments at the Alamogordo Primate Facility will be released to a sanctuary in Louisiana, the National Institutes of Health announced Nov. 8.

A committee of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine has prepared a report on the necessity of chimpanzee experimentation. The report was recently released and concluded that the use of ...

1) That the knowledge gained must be necessary to advance the public’s health; 2) There must be no other research model by which the knowledge could be obtained, and the research cannot be ethically ...

Source: Ruben van Kuik, via Wikimedia Commons. How do scientists study the evolution of human culture and cognition? There aren’t any early hominins around—but there are chimpanzees, our closest ...