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

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

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 ...

Scientists piece together genetic links between chimpanzee groups over thousands of years and discovered a surprisingly ...

“And then that culture builds up from there.” Scientists already knew that chimpanzees were capable of using tools in sophisticated ways and passing on that knowledge to their offsprin ...

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

Planet Of The Apes may have been on to something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills – a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations ...

Jose Jordan/AFP/AFP "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 ...