A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...

New research on chimpanzees is forcing scientists to rethink where the line between human and animal minds really lies. In carefully designed experiments, chimps are not just grabbing at treats or ...

Luella and Winthrop Niles Kellogg believed they could use their own child in a chilling experiment involving a chimpanzee. Toddler Donald Kellogg was just 10 months old when he became one of the ...

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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, ...

Chimpanzees may have more in common with human thinkers than previously thought. A new study published in Science by an international team of researchers provides evidence that chimpanzees can ...

When caretakers tried to retrieve the crystal from the chimps’ enclosure, they had to exchange it for favoured snacks of bananas and yoghurt. A second experiment showed that the chimps could identify ...

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.

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