When tales of the "curious" chimps of northern Congo—uncorrupted by misdealings with humans and apparently fully ignorant of our existence—were first reported in this magazine in 1995 ...

“So you are very lucky.” The bonobo, once called the pygmy chimpanzee, is a unique species of ape, native only to forests on the left bank of the Congo River. Recent research casts new light ...

Everybody is delighted when Wounda the chimp gives birth to a healthy male they name Hope. We’re sorry, the information you’re looking for isn’t available right ...

Chimpanzees display an early form of cumulative culture, with successive generations refining tool-use practices for complex ...

While human culture has evolved dramatically - from the Stone Age to the Space Age - chimpanzee cultures appear relatively ...

Three baby chimpanzees who had previously been rescued ... the founders of a rescue center in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have said. Roxanne and Franck Chantereau, founders and heads ...

One striking example of toolset use comes from Congo, where chimps use a stout stick to bore a tunnel into the ground to ...

“As an example of such a toolset, chimpanzees in the Congo region first use a strong stick to dig a deep tunnel through hard ...

To explore the connection between advanced behaviors like tool use and gene transmission, scientists analyzed data from 240 ...