A biologist has been studying animals like hedgehogs and chimpanzees and has found evidence of a secret language that mammals ...

The long-running conflict in a formerly unified community, the second ever observed, adds to Jane Goodall’s studies about a ...

Learn how the world’s largest known chimpanzee group split in Kibale National Park, Uganda, and why the divide led to deadly ...

Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature ...

Chimpanzees that had once formed a cohesive community in Uganda split into factions and turned violent, according to a new ...

Animal behavior research has shown that many species can recognize individuals, remember past encounters, and adjust their ...

Bonobos for years have had the reputation of being the cool hippies of the simian world, with a “make love, not war” ethos, in ​contrast to their belligerent cousins, the chimpanzees. But is this ...