A study has revealed that chimpanzees demonstrate teaching behaviors by handing tools to their young and directly demonstrating how to use them. This follows Jane Goodall’s 1960 discovery that ...

Chimpanzees are handy with tools. They’re known to use sticks to “fish” for ants and algae, make sponges from moss or leaves, and fashion simple spears for hunting. But exactly how the animals pick up ...

Chimpanzees show the widest variety of tool-use strategies of any non-human animal. This enables them to crack nuts, capture termites and ants, and even transfer tools between individuals to obtain ...

Young chimpanzees are remarkably innovative, inventing tools and improving on ones that adults use—and this technical know-how could hold the key to better appreciating the role of children in the ...

Two-thirds of a century after Jane Goodall observed ‘David Greybeard’ break off a twig to fashion a fishing rod for termites, researchers following in her footsteps have found that adult chimpanzees ...

One fascinating observation about chimpanzees is the way populations in different regions form different subcultures, whether this relates to differing forms of communication, rituals or with the ...

Chimpanzees have been seen using spears to hunt bushbabies, US researchers say in a study that demonstrates a whole new level of tool use and planning by our closest living relatives. Perhaps even ...