From school to work to everyday life, you’ve likely been part of groups that work together smoothly and others that quickly ...

As a group of scientists from Panthera gathered around to watch trail camera footage from Gabon’s Batéké Plateau National Park, they were hoping to catch a few glimpses of lions and leopards, the main ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University Anthropology Professor Jill Pruetz long suspected that man-made changes influenced the aggressive behavior researchers have observed among chimpanzees. However, her ...

Despite being one of the most cooperative species on the planet, humans routinely fail to manage shared resources sustainably ...

Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social bonds. A new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University ...

Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, and this adds to the fascination of learning how they behave and interact with each other. We know that they, like humans, live in social groups and that ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison University expected to find risky behavior to peak in adolescence in a study of ...

When I talk about my time in the field, and how wonderful and fascinating chimpanzees are, one thing that often surprises people is that chimps eat meat. Listeners are truly shocked—"Wait what?" they ...