Monkeys and chimps can appear identical to the untrained eye, to the point where some pieces of literature misrepresent them.

Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important ...

Researchers at Kyoto University spent more than 600 hours studying 20 captive chimps to determine if urination is socially ...

They show the owner of the piglet up by its front legs as it stands on its back legs – heightening its Chimpanzee-like look. It is believed that this abnormal occurrence was caused by a genetic ...

Despite decades of research, biologists do not agree on what constitutes ... Chimpanzees are a species: we know what a chimpanzee looks like and they are clearly distinct from, say, orang-utans.

Why do chimps seem to ... “For instance, behaviors like yawning, walking, rhythmic tapping and even changes in pupil size are contagious in both humans and chimpanzees. Our study fits into ...

In terms of health, comparing how the two species respond to pathogens like malaria could improve our understanding ... we don’t know for certain that the genes they identified in chimps do indeed ...