While researching captive chimpanzees at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Kyoto, Japan, she noticed that the animals all tended to pee at the same time. This observation reminded her of certain human ...

Chimpanzees and humans share around 98.8% of our DNA, making them our closest relatives. So, it’s no surprise that most scientists rank their intelligence second only to humans. Like their human ...

"This finding provides evidence that human illegal activities have altered the cultural behavior of chimpanzees," says Roman Wittig of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and the Max Planck ...

A new study shows that peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, making it “the first study to investigate contagious urination in animals, including humans,” says Shinya Yamamoto, an animal ...

Like humans, chimpanzees can rise to the occasion in front of a large audience or fail miserably, scientists said. The team performed an experiment on six chimpanzees that have learned to use ...

It looks like humans aren’t the only ones who occasionally go the bathroom in groups. A study out this week shows that peeing can sometimes be contagious among chimpanzees, too. Scientists at ...

It turns out that humans may not be the only species to experience "contagious urination," according to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology. Chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto ...

Humans are known to invent private ... Hobaiter, the nature-versus-nurture dichotomy that has characterized the chimpanzee gesture debate is evolving into a more nuanced appreciation that both ...

In human societies, urination is generally considered ... prompted by casual observation of convivial pee sessions among captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary at the university.

By Annie Roth Ena Onishi, a doctoral student at Kyoto University, has spent over 600 hours watching chimpanzees urinating ... share structural patterns with human language that may make them ...