A once large and peaceful group of chimpanzees in the western forests of Uganda has now split into two, causing a rare “civil ...

Researchers say that while territorial disputes between animal groups are well known, wars within such groups are extremely ...

An unusually large troop of chimpanzees displayed cooperation and social cohesion for decades, until something shifted and ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are among the closest living relatives of humans. They share more than 98% of our DNA, highlighting the remarkable genetic closeness between species. Yet, these primates are ...

Chimpanzees that had once formed a cohesive community in Uganda split into factions and turned violent, according to a new ...

A chimpanzee community in Uganda’s Kibale National Park that split into rival factions later attacked former allies in what ...

One day in June 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was watching chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park when he saw ...

Like with humans, it is not uncommon in the natural world for a group of animals to split apart and form their own independent groups. But what a new study in the journal Science depicts in the ...

Bonobos may be one of our closest cousins but chimpanzees dominated research after Jane Goodall discovered in the 1960s that chimpanzees make and use tools. This finding paved the way for research on ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests ...