Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

— -- Unseen by anyone else on a hike, a snake crosses your path. What would you do? Chimps, our closest animal cousins, emit soft hoots to warn their unaware friends about the unseen danger. But ...

Adolescents are known for risky behavior, with teenagers in the US more likely than younger children to die from injury.

Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important role in primate social life. By Annie Roth Ena Onishi, a doctoral student ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

You are never too old to play — a maxim that even adult chimpanzees seem to follow. Young chimpanzees are already known to get many benefits from playing. But it seems to also be more important among ...