In recent decades, scientists have clearly demonstrated that chimpanzees, like humans, pass on complex cultures such as tool use from generation to generation. But human culture has become vastly more ...

Intelligence comes in many forms, and some animals possess abilities that rival our own in surprising ways. Chimpanzees use ...

Archaeologists and primatologists have shown that stone tool using chimpanzees in West Africa have distinct and recognizable material cultures. During fieldwork aimed at documenting the stone tool use ...

"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an exciting first that highlights a mysterious aspect of human technological evolution, chimpanzees impressively engineer tools ...

Groups of chimpanzees in West Africa use stone tools in distinctly different ways to crack open nuts. Researchers used 3D scans to trace wear patterns on the tools, called “hammerstones” and “anvils.” ...

The female endangered chimpanzee used a stick to investigate a trail camera in a Gabon national park. Gabon ANPN/Panthera/Gaboma Multimedia and Production In 2015, a photograph of a lone male lion in ...

During fieldwork aimed at documenting the stone tool use of a group of wild chimpanzees in the Taï Forest in Cote d'Ivoire in early 2022, the researchers identified and 3D scanned a variety of stone ...