Kimbang the chimpanzee came into foster care when her mother was killed...

chimpanzees , and humans. While chimpanzees are the smallest, humans are the weakest. Chimps are much stronger than humans, even accounting fo...  ...e stronger than our top athletes.Pound-for-pound, chimpanzees are 1.5 times stronger than hum...

Photo: Brett Eloff/Lee R. Berger/Univers...  ...a human-like pelvis, hands and teeth, and a chimpanzee -like foot. [...] In six separate researc...  ...as compared to modern human (left) and chimpanzee (right). Credit: Lee R. Berger/University...  ...ggestions that Au. sediba walked...

And so the ape uprising has begu...  ...begun. Researchers discovered that a male chimp at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden named Santino...  ...n PLoS ONE, explained what the clever chimp did: "After a visitor group had l...

(Video Link) This might just be one of the cute...  ...st be one of the cutest videos ever. Like humans, chimps are born with a strong maternal instinct and when...

Photo: Monica Szczupider / National GeographicWhen...  ...National GeographicWhen Dorothy, a beloved female chimp died at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in Cameroon, her burial was witness...  ...roon, her burial was witnessed by the rest of the chimps residing there....

Chimps may be portrayed as mischieviously fun but largel...  ...wood, but the truth is anything but. In the wild, chimpanzees are killers that engage in years-long war against...  ..., Prof Wrangham and Dr Goodall watched a group of chimpanzees split into two factions. One group...

Forget DNA! Scientists have re-traced our evolutio...  ...Who says you can't learn anything by tickling chimps ?To investigate that, Marina Davila Ross of the Un...  ...g three human babies and 21 orangutans, gorillas, chimps and bonobos. After measuring 11 traits in the...

According to a new study published in the latest...  ...sue of Developmental Psychobiology, orphaned baby chimpanzees that received motherly care and attention from hu...  ...en both were compared at nine months. When the chimps were nine months old, they took an IQ test normal...  ...typical items on the cog...

Humans are not the only political animals. Mark Fo...  ...force to dominate, smaller and more mild-mannered chimps use politics to gain higher social standings:The...  ...gleaned from 10 years of observing dominant male chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, looking at beha...  ...minate while smaller, ge...