In chimpanzee communities, strong social ties can be a matter of life and death not just for the adults who form them, but ...

A new federally funded study of wild eastern chimpanzees in Gombe National Park reveals that female chimps who are more ...

Female chimps are often the ones who leave their birth group. That means most do not live near their mothers or sisters.

Baby chimps thrive when their moms have lots of friends, according to new research. Chimpanzee mothers with stronger social ...

Their results, published in Current Biology, show that eastern and western chimpanzees—two distinct subspecies—drum with distinguishable rhythms. advertisement. Phys.org.

Their results show that eastern (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and western (P.t. verus) chimpanzees — two distinct subspecies — drum with distinguishable rhythms.

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results show that eastern and ...

Not to be outdone by Ronan the beat-keeping sea lion or woodpeckers in the forest, some chimpanzees are also able to keep a beat and use regular spacing between drum hits. Over 300 observations of ...

Western chimpanzees typically drummed more often and faster, while eastern chimpanzees drum more slowly and start drumming later in their hooting.

Despite the differences between chimpanzee and human drumming, chimps show some of the “core building blocks of human musical rhythm”, says team member Vesta Eleuteri at the University of ...

Their results, published in Current Biology, show that eastern and western chimpanzees—two distinct subspecies—drum with distinguishable rhythms.