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Chimpanzees and bonobos are closest living relatives, sharing over 98% DNA. They belong to the genus Pan. Though similar, they show distinct behaviours and physical traits. Bonobos live south of the ...

A baby chimp cuddles with its mother. The great apes share about 99 percent of their DNA with humans. Photograph by Eric Gevaert, Alamy ByGrant Currin May 6, 2021 •6 min read ...

Chimpanzees are among our closest living relatives, but they may be even more like us than we realised. In fact, in the animal kingdom, it seems chimps perform crucial first aid too.

Western chimpanzees used evenly spaced hits and hit their “drums” more, using a faster tempo, and integrated the drumming into their pant-hoot vocalizations earlier.

Chimpanzee drumming. Credit: Current Biology /Eleuteri et al. To find out, Eleuteri and her team, including senior authors Catherine Hobaiter of the University of St. Andrews in the UK and Andrea ...

Moving forward a sanctuary like Chimp Haven may one day be unnecessary. Ten years ago, the NIH announced that it would no longer support any biomedical research on chimpanzees.

Maggie died at the age of 55 on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. A chimpanzee at San Francisco Zoo and Gardens who was said to be one of the oldest in the United States died this week at the age of 55.

Chimpanzees are humans’ closest living relatives, sharing over 98% of our DNA. They are endangered, with fewer than 250,000 left and an annual decline of between 1.5% and 6%.

Wild chimpanzees have long been known to rely on their powerful memories to know where and in what trees they can find ripe wild fruit. Less has been understood about whether and how the great ...

Citations E. Onishi et al. Contagious urination in chimpanzees Current Biology. Published online January 20, 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.052 ...

The parallels between chimpanzee and hominin behavior challenge long-held assumptions. For decades, tool use was considered a uniquely human trait, tied to the emergence of the genus Homo.