Study finds some chimps twice as skilled at nut-cracking, highlighting 25 years of research on intelligence and tool use.

Adolescent chimps are, in some respects, rather similar to their human counterparts. They live with mum until well into ...

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

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

The animal kingdom is chock full of nutcrackers and that skill can even vary between individual animals. Some chimpanzees appear to be more efficient at using tools to crack nuts than others within ...

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

Video from 2012 showing the individual variation in nut-cracking efficiency in the Bossou chimpanzees. The first cracker is Peley, a 14-year-old adult male who successfully cracks two oil palm nuts.

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

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

In a unique twist, the orangutans and chimpanzees at the Center for Great Apes had the same opportunity to interact with the ...

Chimpanzees are the animals with the most complex memory, apart from humans. They remember where and when ripe fruits are available, and use this information to decide which trees they will visit ...