Chimpanzee society is naturally aggressive and even violent. However, visitors at the Los Angeles Zoo probably didn’t expect this chimpanzee brawl to look like a sword fight.

Hate waiting in line for the bathroom? Chimpanzees have a social solution: Go all at once. A new study shows that peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, making it “the first study to investigate ...

It’s not unusual for chimpanzees to fight. Chimpanzee society is naturally aggressive and even violent. However, visitors at the Los Angeles Zoo probably didn’t expect this chimpanzee brawl to look ...

For chimpanzees, the need to pee appears to be contagious. A study published January 20 in the journal Current Biology finds that when one chimpanzee urinates, the others in a group are more ...

The study in 20 captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Japan shows that, when one chimp pees, others are more likely to follow. A new study reported in the Cell Press journal ...

For millennia, the western chimpanzees of Taï National Park in Ivory Coast have communicated with each other in a dialect of their own. They do not speak in words, but rather through gestures. In one ...

Researchers from the Taï Chimpanzee Project observed members of the four neighbouring communities of wild chimpanzees every day from the time they left their nests in the morning until they went to ...

"Urination, a seemingly simple physiological act, can also spread socially within a group." A recent study in the journal Current Biology led by scientists at Kyoto University's Wildlife Research ...

The study in 20 captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Japan shows that, when one chimp pees, others are more likely to follow. "In humans, urinating together can be seen as a ...

The same is true of Beryl, a chimpanzee living in Kibale National Park, in Uganda, and her young daughter, Lindsay. When Lindsay wants to climb on her mother’s back and travel, she puts one hand ...

In a new paper in the journal Current Biology, scientists report socially contagious urination in chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, as measured through all-occurrence recording of 20 captive ...

Scientists suggest captive chimpanzees engage in ‘socially contagious urination’—that is, when one primate starts peeing, others quickly follow suit Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent A new ...