The animal kingdom is chock full of nutcrackers and that skill can even vary between individual animals. Some chimpanzees ...

A recent study led by the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior has revealed that wild ...

New research shows significant variation in the nut-cracking skills of chimpanzees, suggesting cognitive differences.

A team of anthropologists at the University of Oxford's School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, working with a ...

A group of chimpanzees at Arnhem's Royal Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands were treated to a festive meal this week, delivered ...

Some chimpanzees appear to be more efficient at using tools to crack nuts than others within their groups. This efficiency could also give them an evolutionary advantage, since better nutcracking ...

Limbani, an 8-year-old male chimpanzee that PETA rescued, appeared in the Netflix docuseries "Tiger King" and the HBO ...

Chimpanzees could really learn to make a cup of PG Tips tea, scientists have found. Like humans they solve tasks by breaking ...

Human beings are animals, evolved from ancestral great apes. We are part of nature and yet unique in many ways.

Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park is one of the few places in the world where you can see wild chimpanzees in their ...

In this new study, the researchers investigated the actions of wild chimpanzees -- our closest relatives -- whilst using tools, and whether these appeared to be organised into sequences with ...