Despite regularly occurring in humans, sharing food outside of kinship or mating relationships is rare in non-human animals. Our two closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, are two of the ...

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An international team of researchers conducted observations of natural food sharing behavior of the chimpanzees of the Tai National Park, Ivory Coast. They found that chimpanzees who possess large ...

Despite regularly occurring in humans, sharing food outside of kinship or mating relationships is rare in non-human animals. Our two closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, are two of ...

This, then, is one explanation for alarm and food calls. However, recent evidence suggests that chimpanzee food calls may be intentional acts of communication and not just emotional outbursts.

For their results, researchers analysed which of nearly 16000 potential food trees with different crown sizes were actually approached by the chimpanzees. Observations on one female, followed ...

If you are feeling unwell, perhaps you should. These West African plants are part of a ‘jungle pharmacy’ sought out by wild chimpanzees to treat ailments ranging from worm infestations to ...