Chimps apply engineering skills to select tools with the right characteristic for hunting termites. This can teach us more ...

Learn more about complex compositionality, an ability to combine words and calls that humans and bonobos apparently share.

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Humans may have taken over the planet with our amazing intellect, but that doesn't mean the animal kingdom is filled with slow minds.

The results were telling. Plants selected by chimpanzees to make tools were significantly more flexible — on average, 175% ...

The debate over human uniqueness is shifting as data has emerged suggesting that other animals can also generate cultural ...

Animals can learn from each other, maintaining their cultures for long periods of time. What sets people apart may be the uniquely open-ended ways we invent new ideas and share and build on them.

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In evolutionary terms, fitness is defined as an organism's ability to survive and reproduce its genes into the next ...

Des Moines’ Ape Initiative, as well as scientists and animal lovers around the world, are mourning the loss of Kanzi, the ...

A new study finds bonobos combine sounds in complex ways, offering clues to the early roots of human language and how ...