By Annie Roth Ena Onishi, a doctoral student at Kyoto University, has spent over 600 hours watching chimpanzees urinating ... is expected to welcome another baby chick in the coming months.

The only social factor that proved relevant was dominance, with less-dominant chimps being more prone to contagious urination. There may still be other factors influencing the behavior ...

Hate waiting in line for the bathroom? Chimpanzees have a social solution: Go all at once. A new study shows that peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, making it “the first study to investigate ...

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Bhubaneswar: Nandankanan Zoological Park welcomed its newest member as chimpanzee Durga gave birth to her first baby on Thursday ... surveillance to ensure well-being of the newborn and its ...

To determine if the synced urination was due to external factors - like water consumption and being outside - or social contagion, the researchers placed the chimps in groups of four at varying ...

with higher-status chimps urinating alone and lower-status chimps urinating in response to the higher-status individuals. “We observed a clear influence of social rank, with lower-ranking individuals ...

Multiple studies have indicated that wild chimpanzees rely on memory to find ripe fruit, but less has been known about what role memory plays in sourcing foods of animal origin. A recent study ...

21, allegedly while under the care by his 20-year-old father, is making progress toward recovery, according to the baby's mother. In a Facebook post, the child's mother, who identified herself as ...

“Even if chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, a keystone species and endangered, we know very little about their potential adaptations to the environment. This is because being elusive ...