Drawn from greater than 20 years of observations at Nouabalé-Ndoki Nationwide Park within the Republic of Congo, researchers documented lasting social ties between particular person chimpanzees and gorillas that endured over years and throughout totally different contexts.

Much like people, chimpanzees use communication to coordinate their cooperative conduct -- corresponding to throughout looking. When chimpanzees produce a particular vocalization, often known as the 'looking bark', they recruit extra group members to the hunt and seize their prey extra successfully, researchers have now proven.

A brand new examine offers perception into the place chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) prevented local weather instability throughout glacial and interglacial durations in Africa over the previous 120,000 years.

A brand new examine exhibits that orphaned male chimpanzees are much less aggressive and have fewer offspring of their very own than those that proceed to stay with their moms. The remaining puzzle is, what's it that their moms present that retains chimpanzees wholesome and aggressive?

A sweeping new census estimates 52,800 western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) dwell in eight nations in western Africa, with most of them discovered exterior of protected areas, a few of that are threatened by intense improvement pressures.

In the case of cooperation, there is no monkey enterprise in how some chimpanzees reply.