We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t ...

R esearchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have examined how social models influence memory in great apes. They presented young and adult apes ...

Though we don't look much like them, we humans have a lot in common with bonobos and the three other great apes—the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan. Compared to the lesser primates ...

Hominidae is the primate family otherwise known as ‘the great apes’. Humans belong in this family group along with bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans. The great apes are the ...

Our immediate evolutionary family is comprised of the hominoids, the group of primates that includes the "lesser apes" (siamangs and gibbons) as well as the "great apes" (chimpanzees, bonobos ...

The cerebellum is a section of the brain critical to tool use. Great apes have a cerebellum that is on average 45% bigger than a monkey’s. Experiments showed chimps and orang-utans using up to 5 ...

A project testing great apes’ puzzle-solving abilities could offer insight into the mental abilities underpinning language. Solving the puzzles involves the same sorts of mental abilities ...

In some instances abnormal behaviours were reduced. These results are discussed in relation to the management of captive great apes and it is suggested that the use of puzzle feeders can improve the ...

Great apes, like humans, remember objects better when introduced by a social agent, but develop this skill only in adulthood Primates, including both monkeys and great apes, live in complex social ...

“Because we stayed, we found out things about the great apes that would have been impossible to find out in other ways. So, I think it’s that accumulation of data, of staying, that helps serve ...

Adult great apes exhibit enhanced memory for social events, remembering towers built by a human hand better than those constructed by a mechanical claw. This effect is attributed to increased ...