Leave it to a baby chimpanzee to put a new spin on play time. 21-month-old Milou was caught in this viral video jumping, spinning and dizzily collapsing over and over as his fellow chimps remain ...

When it comes to nurturing their young, mother chimpanzees go the extra mile, according to a new study. Using 10 years of observational data on wild chimpanzees, researchers found that while adults ...

When there isn’t much food to go around, most chimpanzees stop playing altogether to conserve energy, but mothers continue to spend lots of time playing with their young. Play is vital for the ...

You are never too old to play — a maxim that even adult chimpanzees seem to follow. Young chimpanzees are already known to get many benefits from playing. But it seems to also be more important among ...

Wild chimpanzees have been studied for more than 60 years, but they continue to delight and surprise observers, as we found during the summer of 2017 in Kibale National Park in Uganda. We were ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A captive chimpanzee in Japan spontaneously ripped floorboards from a walkway and used them as instruments to perform structured, rhythmic drumming ...