Researchers found that chimpanzees update their beliefs based on evidence, showing a human-like ability to reason and reflect ...

The research, titled "Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs," was carried out by a team including UC Berkeley ...

Sometimes, we manage to spin new information in ways that will support our belief rather than change our minds. Just watch ...

"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." That's the longest string of words that Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who scientists raised as a human and taught sign ...

As scientists have studied the chimpanzee, they’ve found more and more similarities between humans and their closest living relatives. But when it comes to the courts, chimps and humans couldn’t be ...

The chimps who starred in "MVP" 25 years ago are long removed from wearing hockey gear, but the impacts of their show ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international ...

In a series of experiments designed to test the metacognition of these fascinating apes, psychologist Hanna Schleihauf of ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

While this might not seem like much, chimps eat so much fruit (around 10 percent of their body mass every day!), it ends up ...

Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered “persons” with human rights, according to the state’s Court of Appeals.