An October 2025 social media post correctly reported that researchers documented an apparent effort by a troop of chimpanzees in the Congo Basin to domesticate more than 30 penguins. In October 2025, ...

Chimpanzees at Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary can do what was once considered an exclusively human trait: form expectations on the basis of evidence, but revise them on learning new facts.

Kayla Kolff received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), project number 274877981 (GRK-2185/1: DFG Research Training Group Situated Cognition). Animals respond to injury in many ways.

Chimpanzees are some of the smartest animals on the planet. However, chimpanzees can be very aggressive as well. As they share 98% of human DNA, it is not surprising that chimpanzee teeth are almost ...