To deduce whether urination was contagious, researchers analyzed 600 hours of video footage depicting the 20 chimps at Kumamoto. During that time, they documented more than 1,328 urination events.

A new paper published in Current Biology suggests a novel twist on an old saying: Instead of "monkey see, monkey do," the paper proposes "chimp see, chimp pee." Well, not in so many words. But the ...

They found that the shorter the distance between chimps in a group, the more likely they would relieve themselves within just over three minutes after the first one. The chance of chimpanzees ...

Humans are known to invent private hand gestures. Chimps in the wild do, too, a new study suggests. By Brandon Keim Parents and their children, or people who know each other well, often share some ...

They observed captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary for hundreds of hours, noticing that when one chimp decided to pee, others would often follow suit. This phenomenon might be ...

Physical proximity played a crucial role. Imagine three zones around each urinating chimpanzee: within arm’s reach, within about 10 feet, and farther away. The closer other chimps were to the one ...

Urinating is a contagious behaviour among chimpanzees, a study has found. Individual chimps that see another chimp urinating will respond by also emptying their bladder, especially if the first to ...

Onishi, et al decided to study the phenomenon after noticing that many chimps in the sanctuary seemed to synchronize when they peed, and they wondered whether the phenomenon might be similar to ...

She is part of a team of researchers that recently discovered that the primates tend to tinkle when they see nearby chimps do the same. In a study published Monday in the journal Current Biology ...

She knew about well-studied “contagious” behaviors, such as yawning in humans, and wondered whether the chimps might be displaying “contagious urination.” In a new paper, published on ...

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Jeff Bezos’ space company launched its massive new rocket for the first time, aiming to advance the Amazon founder’s lifelong space-exploration ambitions. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket ...