It’s a common mistake to think we came directly from the monkeys or chimps you see at the zoo today, […] ...

A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the ...

Visit the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro and see one of the largest chimpanzee troops in the U.S., plus expansive wildlife ...

According to YouGov surveys, 15 per cent of British men and 22 per cent of US men believe they could beat a chimpanzee in a ...

By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties. The ability to make something out of nothing may seem uniquely human — a ...

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated for the first time that apes can ...

Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood playtime and long presumed to be exclusively a human ...

A new study in Behavioral Biology reveals how chimpanzees solve resource dilemmas. Larger, more tolerant groups share resources better.

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by ...

A Swiss Brown cow has been shown to use tools flexibly and deliberately, challenging long-standing assumptions about the cognitive limits of livestock. In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson introduced ...

Cattle are seen as animals with small brains, lacking intelligence and emotion. Veronika the cow has just proven that to be wrong.

In case you haven't heard, cows are using tools now. Well, one cow, Veronika, a brown cow in Switzerland that used a broom to scratch her back and belly. Alice Auersperg wrote a book about animal ...