Chimpanzees at Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary can do what was once considered an exclusively human trait: form expectations on the basis of evidence, but revise them on learning new facts.

A group of chimpanzees gather to examine a visitor’s prosthetic leg, even calling others over to take a closer look.

From dolphins to elephants, some animals show remarkable awareness of death. Discover7 species that appear to turn the death of family ...

Intelligent, tool-using, empathetic and self-aware: the distance between humans and other animals is not as great as you ...

The Little People, Big Dreams biography series, written by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, is an internationally bestselling series designed for kids ages 6-8 with a reading level of Grades 1-3. It ...

Photo: Bill Wallauer For more than 65 years, research from Gombe has offered an extraordinary window into the lives of wild ...

Nipah virus was first identified in 1998 during an outbreak among pig farmers in Malaysia. Later, pteropus bat populations have been identified as its primary reservoir. How do factors like ecological ...

The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

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 ...

This article by Arthur Bizimana, first published on Ibihe.org on November 25, 2025, is part of a series of four investigations conducted with support from the Pulitzer Center. Global Voices ...

A study found that chimpanzees tend to take more physical risks as infants and young animals rather than as adolescents, like humans. The researchers hypothesize that the level of care humans provide ...