As seasons change and different plants grow and develop, chimps display their advanced memory and ecological knowledge by remembering where food sources are located. Primarily, chimps are frugivores.

Both chimpanzees and bonobos are omnivores but their diets primarily consist of fruit which makes up the largest portion of their food intake. They also eat leaves, seeds, flowers and insects.

Chimpanzees are not the only animals who have been observed administering first aid to others. Recently, a US study found that mice help pull the tongues out of the mouths of unconscious cage ...

The behaviour was noted amongst two communities of chimpanzees in the forest. Chimpanzees in Uganda use medicinal plants for first aid on injuries. Research conducted in Budongo Forest highlights ...

Gorillas and chimpanzees, though sharing genetic similarities ... and they spend most of their day foraging quietly. Because their food is low in energy, they conserve effort and rest often ...

More information: Sem van Loon et al, Stone-assisted drumming in Western chimpanzees and its implications for communication and cultural transmission, Biology Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl ...

The observation of bonding behaviours in wild chimpanzees suggests that some aspects of human attachment have a deep evolutionary origin. Rolland et al. studied wild chimpanzees aged 0–10 years ...

However, researchers have observed some surprisingly similar behavior in chimpanzees, shedding new light on the evolutionary roots of such practices. Chimpanzees have already been shown to have a ...

The manner in which chimpanzees master the language of mathematics may illuminate human verbal behavior In which Dennis and Margie are taught how to recognize numbers and write them in binary form.

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A recent study into the drumming patterns of chimpanzees revealed that they followed a particular rhythm, and the beats were not random. Chimpanzees were found to drum on the buttress roots of ...