New research shows bonobos and chimpanzees comfort others at similar rates, challenging old beliefs about ape empathy.

Chimps in Guinea-Bissau were recorded sharing fermented breadfruits in the wild, offering a clue about the origins of social ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos ...

Remote cameras in Africa have captured the first images and video of wild chimpanzees eating and sharing fermented fruit that ...

For the first time known to scientists, a team has documented chimps ... among humans, suggesting that alcohol consumption may have provided an evolutionary benefit for the common ancestor of ...

A group of chimps have been filmed sharing alcoholic breadfruit, in the first example of wild primates having a booze-up on ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, observed the behaviour of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos were more likely than chimpanzees ... our last common ancestor likely ...

Wild chimpanzees have ... ethanol metabolism in the common ancestor of African apes suggests eating fermented fruits may have ancient origins in species including humans and chimps.