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

Researchers find wild chimpanzees prefer plants 2.75 times more flexible, indicating sophisticated understanding of material ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

Osteobiography involves the analysis of bones and other tissue. It is more commonly used in archaeology to reconstruct the ...

Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide ...

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

Male chimpanzees in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park use distinct “auditory gestures” to attract females. However, ...

This finding could help us understand how early humans developed their tool-making capabilities. "This is the first direct evidence that wild chimpanzees select plant materials for termite fishing ...

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 ...