New research on chimpanzees is forcing scientists to rethink where the line between human and animal minds really lies. In ...

Chimpanzees change their choices when stronger clues appear and stay the course when only weaker hints came in.

Gruber, T., Muller, M.N., Strimling, P., Wrangham, R.W. & Zuberbühler, K. (2009) Wild chimpanzees rely on cultural knowledge to solve an experimental honey acquisition task. Current biology, ...

And chimps outperform humans. I once watched Matsuzawa show videos of his experiments with Ai and Ayumu at a conference attended by the world’s leading chimp researchers, including Jane Goodall, ...

Luella and Winthrop Niles Kellogg believed they could use their own child in a chilling experiment involving a chimpanzee. Toddler Donald Kellogg was just 10 months old when he became one of the ...

We are calling on the U.S. Congress to fund care for the estimated 200 primates who will no longer be used in research ...

For something so admired, so synonymous with merit, the concept of intelligence is remarkably poorly understood. Our society operates on the assumption that people with greater intelligence deserve ...

A committee of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine has prepared a report on the necessity of chimpanzee experimentation. The report was recently released and concluded that the use of ...

Source: Ruben van Kuik, via Wikimedia Commons. How do scientists study the evolution of human culture and cognition? There aren’t any early hominins around—but there are chimpanzees, our closest ...

The National Institutes of Health wants you to believe that chimpanzee experimentation is necessary. It so badly wants you to believe this that the agency just two months ago began to use your tax ...