New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...

New research on chimpanzees is forcing scientists to rethink where the line between human and animal minds really lies. In carefully designed experiments, chimps are not just grabbing at treats or ...

And chimps outperform humans. I once watched Matsuzawa show videos of his experiments with Ai and Ayumu at a conference attended by the world’s leading chimp researchers, including Jane Goodall, ...

1) That the knowledge gained must be necessary to advance the public’s health; 2) There must be no other research model by which the knowledge could be obtained, and the research cannot be ethically ...

When caretakers tried to retrieve the crystal from the chimps’ enclosure, they had to exchange it for favoured snacks of bananas and yoghurt. A second experiment showed that the chimps could identify ...

Source: Ruben van Kuik, via Wikimedia Commons. How do scientists study the evolution of human culture and cognition? There aren’t any early hominins around—but there are chimpanzees, our closest ...