Primates can `think about thinking` like humans

Last Updated: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 15:30

The closest animal relatives to humans, chimpanzees, have the ability to "think about thinking" - what is called "metacognition," a new study has revealed.

Origins of human teamwork found in chimps

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 17:40

Teamwork in humans may have its evolutionary roots in our nearest primate relatives chimpanzees - a new study has found.

Chimps have faster working memory than humans

Last Updated: Friday, February 15, 2013, 13:19

Chimpanzees take a fraction of a second to memorise something that would take several seconds for humans to remember, a study has claimed. <br><br>

`Love hormone drives social relations in chimps`

Last Updated: Friday, January 25, 2013, 13:24

Scientists have discovered that in chimpanzees love hormone oxytocin plays a key role in maintaining social relations with both kin and strangers.

Most research chimps should be retired: US panel

Last Updated: Friday, January 25, 2013, 13:19

Chimpanzees, who have served an important role in advancing human health in the past, will no longer be goaded, poked and examined in US research labs, as they may soon be offered retirement in leafy sanctuaries.

Chimpanzees possess sense of fairness akin to humans

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 17:26

In a new study, researchers have shown for the first time that chimpanzees possess a sense of fairness that has previously been attributed as uniquely human.

Scientists decode why humans are intelligent than chimps

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 15:22

Human brains expands much more dramatically than chimpanzee brains during the first few years of life.

Chimps selfish when it comes to food

Last Updated: Friday, August 17, 2012, 14:23

Some things cannot be explained by evolution. Chimps and bonobos don`t share an innate sense of fairness with their closest human kin.

`Chimps, orangutans have human-like personalities`

Last Updated: Friday, May 25, 2012, 10:24

Chimpanzees and orangutans have personalities “like people”, a new study has claimed.

Like humans, chimpanzees have cops too

Last Updated: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 14:19

Seems like chimpanzees also understand that sound conflict management is crucial to ensure peace and order in their group.

Chimpanzees learn to mop cage from keepers

Last Updated: Friday, February 10, 2012, 08:56

Chimpanzees in a Russian zoo have learned to clean their cages by watching zookeepers.

`Chimps can also understand language like humans`

Last Updated: Saturday, December 3, 2011, 13:31

If you believe speech perception is a uniquely human trait, think again -- chimpanzees may also have the ability to understand language, says a new study.