Wild chimps eat medicinal plants to treat illness and injuries, reveals new research. Sick chimpanzees consume tree bark, dead wood and ferns with antibiotic and anti-inflammatory effects ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool ...

To eat termites, chimpanzees need to use relatively ... "This is the first comprehensive evidence that wild chimpanzees select tool materials for termite fishing based on specific mechanical ...

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

Chimpanzees in Tanzania choose flexible materials for termite tools, revealing clues about the origins of human intelligence ...

He is fond of eating sweets and chicken ... and grow up with his family," assistant vet Alejandra Marin told AFP. In the wild in their natural home in Africa, chimpanzees die at about 40 or 45 years ...

Understanding how chimpanzees have adapted to survive in the wild can shed light on key questions in human biology and evolution. It can also inform their conservation. However, we know very ...