"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills—a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations ...

Wild chimpanzees appear to learn skills from each other and then – much as humans do – improve on those techniques from one generation to the next. In particular, young females that migrate ...

By Sofia Quaglia It’s amazing what chimpanzees will do for a snack. In Congolese rainforests, the apes have been known to poke a hole into the ground with a stout stick, then grab a long stem ...

By comparison, play in adults of other species has been considered rare, and yet a new study reported in Current Biology shows that some chimpanzees, like people, continue to play often throughout ...

Washington DC - Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills in a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations between populations, according to ...

Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture. Science , 2024; 386 (6724): 920 DOI: 10.1126/science.adk3381 Cite This Page : ...

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You are never too old to play — a maxim that even adult chimpanzees seem to follow. Young chimpanzees are already known to get many benefits from playing. But it seems to also be more important ...

Credit: Tetsuro Matsuzawa Chimpanzees may refine cultural behaviors over time, with advanced toolsets spreading through migrating females, suggesting early stages of cumulative culture. Chimpanzees ...