Ape vine twizzling is equivalent to humans getting drunk
An interesting scientific study has come to the conclusion that after a hard day’s work, apes like to hang onto a vine and twizzle...
Category: Apes
Chimpanzee gestures can be understood by fellow primates such as humans
Chimpanzees and bonobos use dozens of gestures to communicate with each other. They might be a request or an instruction. For example, as you...
Chimp Fiona shows her mother an interesting sprig of leaves in human-like behaviour
The latest observation of chimpanzee behaviour in the Kibale National Park, western Uganda, under a long-running study, revealed a form of behaviour that was...
17% of Americans believe they can beat a chimpanzee in unarmed combat
The title tells us of an interesting and I think startling statistic based upon a YouGov survey. YouGov is a polling company based in...
Ransom demanded for the return of 3 kidnapped chimpanzees (Congo)
A criminal gang has kidnapped three rescue chimpanzees from a chimpanzee rescue centre, the ‘Jack primate rehabilitation center’ in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo,...
Chimpanzees don’t say goodbye because they keep in touch through drum beats
Chimpanzees have their own drumming style. Some are much wilder than others, scientists have discovered when observing chimpanzees in a Ugandan rainforest where the...
Ukraine: escaped chimp is hugged by woman and he returns to zoo on keeper’s bicycle
NEWS AND COMMENT-KHARKIV, UKRAINE: The back story to this news item is the war in Ukraine and we know that Kharkiv has been attacked...
Orangutan scares the living daylights out of wannabe social media star
NEWS AND COMMENT-INDONESIA: The video has gone viral as you might expect. In an attempt to make an interesting video for his social media...
Chimpanzees treat cuts with the haemolymph inside insects
NEWS AND COMMENT: Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees in Gabon, Africa, treat each other with the fluid inside an unknown insect (haemolymph) when they...
Chimpanzees have the social skills to benefit from cumulative culture
What is cumulative culture? The best ways to describe it is to refer to the way that chimpanzees from Bossou, Guinea, have learned to...
Woman has love affair with zoo chimp and is banned
NEWS AND COMMENT-ANTWERP, BELGIUM: This is a story which turns on the question as to whether a human can have a genuine love affair...
Extraordinary photograph of dying female mountain gorilla in the arms of her human caregiver
This is Ndakasi with her caretaker and lifelong friend Andre Bauma, a park ranger who cared for her. I don’t know but this might...
Grieving apes carry their dead infants
The picture on this page shows a baboon carrying her long dead infant. It is unsettling but it is also the process of grieving....
Do non-human animals have culture?
Unquestionably, non-human animals do, indeed, have culture. It is another example of an erosion of the concept of human exceptionalism. Humans like to think...
Animals adopting unrelated animals or animals of another species
We know that humans adopt children through adoption services because their parents are unable to look after their own children for whatever reason. It’s...
