Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

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.

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.

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.

Wild chimpanzees filmed sharing ‘boozy’ fruit for first time. Chimps don’t share food all the time, so this behaviour with fermented fruit might be important. Wild chimpanzees have been pictured ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Chimpanzees drum with regular, nonrandom rhythms, and eastern and western subspecies display distinct drumming patterns. Western chimpanzees use more evenly ...

This marks the first instance of wild chimps sharing alcoholic food. The study supports the drunken monkey hypothesis regarding evolution. In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the ...

It’s important to note that while Boma’s size is undoubtedly impressive, it is not a desirable trait in chimpanzees. In the wild, larger individuals are often more aggressive and have difficulty ...

Or maybe other aspects of Ngogo—like an unusual abundance of high-quality plant food—mean that chimps there have the time, energy, and nutritional resources to engage in risky things like hunting.

They paint, play with bubbles and forage for food like frozen strawberries, string beans and heads of lettuce. The entire population at Save the Chimps goes through 2,500 pounds of food a day ...

monitoring how chimps of different ages gripped and manipulated the implement to retrieve food from tricky places. The study found that older chimps were more adept at choosing the right grip for ...

But according to Reddy’s data, bonobo and chimp youngsters both face conflicts with similar risks of real harm. Indeed, Reddy saw some young bonobos get hurt or miss out on food while their ...