The high intelligence levels of orangutans have long been recognised, partly due to their practical skills such as using tools to retrieve seeds and forage…
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Juvenile great apes love to tease and annoy their elders, study finds
Footage of great apes has revealed that humans are not the only ones to endure seemingly endless bouts of teasing dished out by their smaller…
View More Juvenile great apes love to tease and annoy their elders, study findsWild female chimps live long post-menopause life, study suggests
Female chimpanzees in the wild undergo the menopause and live for a lengthy period afterwards, researchers have found, suggesting the phenomenon is more widespread than…
View More Wild female chimps live long post-menopause life, study suggestsHow quirk of primate evolution gave humans the voice apes lack
Scientists have identified evolutionary modifications in the voice box distinguishing people from other primates that may underpin a capability indispensable to humankind: speaking. Researchers said…
View More How quirk of primate evolution gave humans the voice apes lackFrans de Waal: ‘In other primates, I don’t find the kind of intolerance we have’
Sex and gender have come to represent one of the hottest fronts in the modern culture wars. Now, on to this bloody battlefield, calmly dodging…
View More Frans de Waal: ‘In other primates, I don’t find the kind of intolerance we have’Jane Goodall on fires, floods, frugality and the good fight: ‘People have to change from within’
In Jane Goodall’s new book, there is a vivid description of her “deep bond” with a beech tree in the garden of her childhood home…
View More Jane Goodall on fires, floods, frugality and the good fight: ‘People have to change from within’Gorillas beat their chests to size each other up, researchers say
It is a trope used in films from King Kong to Tarzan – a male primate standing upright and beating its chest, sometimes with a…
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