Save the Chimps is an organization unlike any other. The world’s largest privately funded chimpanzee sanctuary, it’s home to ...

She is part of a team of researchers that recently discovered that the primates tend to tinkle when they see nearby chimps do the same. In a study published Monday in the journal Current Biology ...

Onishi, et al decided to study the phenomenon after noticing that many chimps in the sanctuary seemed to synchronize when they peed, and they wondered whether the phenomenon might be similar to ...

Chimpanzees are adapted to live across diverse habitats in Africa, but little is known about the potential adaptation of chimps in different ... Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). A team of more than ...

A team of researchers spent more than 600 hours studying 20 captive chimpanzees to determine that chimps may experience socially contagious urination − a phenomenon in which urination becomes ...

She knew about well-studied “contagious” behaviors, such as yawning in humans, and wondered whether the chimps might be displaying “contagious urination.” In a new paper, published on ...

A new paper published in Current Biology suggests a novel twist on an old saying: Instead of "monkey see, monkey do," the paper proposes "chimp see, chimp pee." Well, not in so many words. But the ...

At the time of the research, the Jane Goodall Institute Spain (JGIS) had been studying chimps in the reserve for more than 15 years. Camera trap footage and tools chimpanzees left during food ...

Humans are known to invent private hand gestures. Chimps in the wild do, too, a new study suggests. By Brandon Keim Parents and their children, or people who know each other well, often share some ...

They observed captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary for hundreds of hours, noticing that when one chimp decided to pee, others would often follow suit. This phenomenon might be ...

Furthermore, the closer a chimp is to the first urinator, the more likely it is to follow suit. Individuals with a lower dominance status were more likely to follow the urination of others.