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Sharing food boosts social bonding in chimps: Study

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 17:32

Food sharing promotes social bonding in chimpanzees, leading them to form cooperative relationships, a new study has found.

Like humans, way to chimpanzees` hearts also through stomachs

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 14:57

Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding human`s ability to form long-term cooperative relationships between unrelated individuals is one of the main reasons for human`s extraordinary biological success.

Chimps are rational, not conformists

Last Updated: Monday, December 16, 2013, 16:47

Researchers have found chimpanzees are sensitive to social influences but they maintain their own strategy to solve a problem rather than conforming to what the majority of group members are doing.

Chimps choose pals based on `similarity of personality` just like humans

Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 15:08

A new study has revealed that chimpanzees choose their friends as to be similar in personality.

Chimp ancestors may have learned to make friends 6 mn yrs ago

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 12:41

A new research has found that the ability to form friendship with people like oneself was there in ancestors of chimpanzees and humans.

Mother chimps help offspring develop social skills

Last Updated: Saturday, September 7, 2013, 13:35

A new research has observed that chimpanzees, who are orphaned, frequently engaged in social play, but their play bouts were much shorter and resulted in aggression more often.

Menopause in women sets humans apart from other primates

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 15:29

Scientists have said that non human primates don`t have immunity to the fading female fertility that comes with age, however human females have no such problems.

Chimpanzees and orangutans remember distant past events

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 15:49

Chimpanzees and orangutans have the human-like ability to remember events that happened years ago, a new study has found.

Chimps have 5 universal personality traits

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 13:09

A new research provides strong support for the universal existence of five personality dimensions in chimpanzees.

Chimps like humans get emotional when decisions fail to pay off

Last Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 10:24

Just like humans, chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit emotional responses to outcomes of their decisions by pouting or throwing angry tantrums when a risk-taking strategy fails to pay off, a new study has found.

`Chimps use passionate gestures to communicate`

Last Updated: Sunday, April 21, 2013, 11:26

Chimpanzees use a mixture of passionate gestures, vocalizations and even sign language to get their points across with each other and with humans, a new study has found.

Chimpanzees use botanical skills to discover fruit

Last Updated: Thursday, April 11, 2013, 14:46

Chimpanzees are aware that trees of certain species produce fruit simultaneously and use this botanical knowledge during their daily search for fruit, according to a new study.