11-Oct-2016 at 5:00 AM EDT, by Washington University in St. Louis Newswise — The first documented evidence of wild chimpanzee mothers teaching their offspring to use tools has been captured by video ...

Chimpanzees and many other nonhuman animals (animals) are quite adept at making and using various sorts of tools (scholarly essays can be found here). However, while there are data that show that ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Darwin noted in 1871 that chimpanzees use stones to crack nuts, striking a blow to human hubris. Over the 20th century, a select few ...

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 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 ...

Wild chimpanzees in Senegal were filmed doing something researchers have long debated whether apes are even capable of: ...

Chimpanzees are known to use rudimentary tools when foraging for food. According to a new paper in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, this learned behavior is passed down from adults to offspring ...

Young chimpanzees pick up their tool skills mostly by watching adults work. In one reserve in southeastern Senegal, some adults did more than set an example. A mother stopped dipping for ants, left ...

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 ...