Chimpanzees that had once formed a cohesive community in Uganda split into factions and turned violent, according to a new study. Nearly 30 chimps were killed, including 19 infants.

When people find out we study chimpanzees, they usually ask about their dark side. “You know chimpanzees kill each other, right?” or “Aren’t they the only animals besides humans that wage wars?” Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our ...

From her studies, Fiona concluded that the relative absence of creepy-crawlies was the biggest reason chimpanzees build nests. When she slept on the bare ground, she found that just after sunset it became a single crawling, slithering, hopping carpet of insects, which continually interrupted her sleep. “It was unbearable,” she said.

We have recently read a lot about the remarkable life's work of the great chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, who passed away on 1 October 2025. We learned that the Kenyan archaeologist and palaeontologist Louis Leakey sent her to Gombe National Park to ...

A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.

Chimpanzee using floorboards for ‘drumming performance’ shows how music emerged in humans - Primate removes floorboards from walkway and uses them to make music