Combat Skills of Chimpanzees and Humans. Physical characteristics of animals can assist in deciding who has the upper hand in a fight, but combat abilities are also critical.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the world in 2019 and 2020, study after study has shown that one of the more effective strategies to combat the spread of the disease was the wearing of face masks.

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A new scientific paper reports that chimpanzees "are capable of" producing sounds that mimic words that they hear from people. It builds on unrelated, recent research that chimpanzees can gesture ...

When the task was easy, the chimps performed worse when there were more people watching. But on the most difficult task, all six of the chimps did better as the size of the audience grew.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about chimpanzee "conversations," oxygen from the bottom of the ocean and how a computer program may warn of rogue waves.

For wounded chimpanzees, help sometimes comes in the form of first aid — care rendered not by humans but by other chimps. New research reveals the nature and prevalence of these rarely witnessed ...

Each chimp was exposed to the robot displaying one of the three expressions during separate 15-minute sessions. Following the tests, 14 chimpanzees (57.1 percent) reportedly exhibited signs of ...

Two studies of wild chimps point to the evolutionary roots of human language. The studies found that chimp communication often relies on rhythmic structures and call combinations.

Chimpanzees eat their lunch at the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Center, 45 km from the city of Bukavu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Guerchom Ndebo/AFP via Getty Images) ...