Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new study finds chimp and ...

Bonobos for years have had the reputation of being the cool hippies of the simian world, with a “make love, not war” ethos, in ​contrast to their belligerent cousins, the chimpanzees. But is this ...

It’s not unusual for chimpanzees to fight. Chimpanzee society is naturally aggressive and even violent. However, visitors at the Los Angeles Zoo probably didn’t expect this chimpanzee brawl to look ...

The endangered bonobo, the great ape of the Central African rainforest, has a reputation for being a bit of a hippie. Known as more peaceful than their warring chimpanzee neighbors, bonobos live in ...

For years, anthropologists have watched wild chimpanzees "go ape" and attack each other in coordinated assaults. But until now, scientists were unsure whether interactions with humans had brought on ...

Perhaps demonstrating just how closely related primates are to humans, a new study finds that female chimpanzees are much more aggressive and “negative” when communicating with other lady chimps, and ...

Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature, by Jonathan Leaf (Bombardier, 320 pp., $21) Ever since Darwin, biologists have believed that much could be learned about human nature ...