11-Oct-2016 at 5:00 AM EDT, by Washington University in St. Louis Newswise — The first documented evidence of wild chimpanzee mothers teaching their offspring to use tools has been captured by video ...

Wild chimpanzees in Senegal were filmed doing something researchers have long debated whether apes are even capable of: ...

A study has revealed that chimpanzees demonstrate teaching behaviors by handing tools to their young and directly demonstrating how to use them. This follows Jane Goodall’s 1960 discovery that ...

Researchers show how western chimpanzees in Senegal give stick tools and baobab fruit to each other. This transfer was typically between relatives, especially by mothers to their immature offspring.

New research led by University of Oxford researchers has found that old age likely impacts the habitual tool-use behaviors of some wild chimpanzees—although the extent to which different individuals ...

Chimpanzees and many other nonhuman animals (animals) are quite adept at making and using various sorts of tools (scholarly essays can be found here). However, while there are data that show that ...

Wild chimpanzees show reduced participation and performance in their tool-use behaviours as they experience old age, according to long-term video observations. The study, published today in eLife, ...

Young chimpanzees pick up their tool skills mostly by watching adults work. In one reserve in southeastern Senegal, some adults did more than set an example. A mother stopped dipping for ants, left ...