Yet, while chimps smile like humans, this isn’t necessarily a good thing. Chimps often bare their teeth as a way of saying, “I’m uncomfortable.” If you’re ever at a zoo, and you smile at ...

Rockhampton Zoo staff watched anxiously as new chimpanzee Sile met her new troop to see if she would be welcomed into the group. In a moment of connection, Sile was embraced by young chimp Gandali ...

Facial recognition isn't just for humans anymore — similar programs run on apes could help park rangers help identify chimps and gorillas, scientists have found. This kind of software could help ...

People often teach chimps to smile. But for a chimp, smiling is known as a “fear grimace,” which displays extreme distress and fear to other chimps. Chimps also yell, bite and fight as a way o ...

And no sky. The video shows Vanilla leap into the arms of another chimp, named Dwight, for a massive hug. Then, she looks up to the sky, makes a big 'smile,' and almost seems to mouth the word 'wow.' ...

A new scientific paper reports that chimpanzees “are capable of” producing sounds that mimic words they hear from people. It follows recent research revealing that chimpanzees can gesture to ...

The chimpanzee was sick. It had diarrhea and tapeworms — not unusual for a wild chimpanzee in the Budongo Forest of Uganda. What intrigued the watching research team was what the ape did about it.

Christen Lin at Kyoto University, Japan, and his colleagues tested a group of six chimpanzees housed at the university’s primate research institute on three numerical tasks with varying difficulty.

Part of what's novel: females. "Right off the bat, they were just enamored with the ladies in the group," says Rana Smith, the president and CEO of Chimp Haven in Louisiana, the federal sanctuary ...

For wounded chimpanzees, help sometimes comes in the form of first aid — care rendered not by humans but by other chimps. New research reveals the nature and prevalence of these rarely witnessed ...