Chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park demonstrated engineering skills by carefully selecting specific plants to craft flexible tools for termite fishing, according to new research ...

Camera-trap footage from Senegal shows adult chimpanzees handing tools and fruit to infants in what researchers interpret as ...

In an exciting first that highlights a mysterious aspect of human technological evolution, chimpanzees impressively engineer tools to fish for termites in Tanzania. For chimpanzees, termites might be ...

11-Oct-2016 at 5:00 AM EDT, by Washington University in St. Louis Newswise — The first documented evidence of wild chimpanzee mothers teaching their offspring to use tools has been captured by video ...

The post Chimpanzees Sharpen Spears with Their Teeth to Hunt appeared first on A-Z Animals. Humans often use weapons when hunting or defending themselves. However, we are not the only animals that ...

A study has revealed that chimpanzees demonstrate teaching behaviors by handing tools to their young and directly demonstrating how to use them. This follows Jane Goodall’s 1960 discovery that ...

The discovery that chimpanzees use tools to fish for termites revolutionized our understanding of their abilities—but we still don't have crucial context to help us understand termite fishing and ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, has discovered that ...

Chimpanzees and many other nonhuman animals (animals) are quite adept at making and using various sorts of tools (scholarly essays can be found here). However, while there are data that show that ...

Newswise — The discovery that chimpanzees use tools to fish for termites revolutionized our understanding of their abilities — but we still don’t have crucial context to help us understand termite ...

As part of the team’s research, UC Santa Cruz doctoral candidate Seth Phillips tried termite fishing for himself. He quickly realized it’s harder than it looks. Photo: Seth Phillips The discovery by ...