Scientists are studying bonobos to better understand their social behavior and ours too.
Meet the chimpanzee, a fascinating animal, and one of our closest living relatives.
Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives of humans. Like us, chimpanzees use technology. Primatologist Catherine Hobaiter and her team watched a young female chimpanzee they call Onyofi digging in the mud of her rainforest habitat in western Uganda. Hobaiter, who works at the University of St. Andrews…
Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives. Like us, they are social animals. They have relationships with family members. They have friends and sometimes enemies. They can use tools. They learn from each other. And we continue to discover other ways they might resemble us. Recently,…
John Mitani has studied apes for decades. Learn more about what he finds interesting about our nearest living relatives.