"Planet of the Apes" may have been onto something. Chimpanzees are steadily honing their tool-using skills—a process unfolding over millennia, driven by the exchange of ideas through migrations ...

Young chimpanzees are remarkably innovative, inventing tools and improving on ones that adults use—and this technical know-how could hold the key to better appreciating the role of children in the ...

Place the nut on a hard, flat rock. Take a heavy hammer rock, and pound the nut. The chimps must have feasted well and often there under the trees by a black-water river. Stones excavated from a ...

Researchers describe a link between genetic relatedness and sophisticated tool use in primates in East and Central Africa, suggesting their culture is cumulative. By Sofia Quaglia It’s amazing what ...

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AMES, Iowa – It was a discovery that changed what researchers knew about the hunting techniques of chimpanzees. In 2007, Jill Pruetz first reported savanna chimps at her research site in Fongoli, ...