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 ...
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Jane Goodall ...
For years, scientists have debated whether chimpanzees can build more advanced cultural traditions over time. Some of their most complex tool-use behaviors—such as using multiple tools in sequence to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Goodall, a pioneering primatologist who befriended chimpanzees, is dead at 91. She discovered that chimpanzees make and use ...
Jane Goodall’s research at Gombe Stream National Park revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzee intelligence. In 1960, she observed a chimp named David Greybeard stripping leaves from twigs to ...
Education by apprenticeship in chimpanzees: One-year-old Joya watches and learns about a using toolset from her mother Jire: a stone hammer and stone anvil used to crack nuts, Bossou, Guinea, West ...