A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Jane Goodall ...

Jane Goodall, a pioneering primatologist who befriended chimpanzees, is dead at 91. She discovered that chimpanzees make and use tools, engage in war, and have personalities. Later in life, Goodall ...

Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be essential for the evolution of complex and varied tool use, according to a study publishing May 7 th ...

Many younger people know the pain of trying to teach an older person how to print a PDF or navigate the internet. But, of course, some people keep with the times and still learn how to use new tools ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Just like any self-respecting plumber has a tool for any occasion, chimpanzees in the Congo have developed specialized "tool kits" to help them forage for ants. That's the conclusion of new research ...

Researchers at the University of College London recently undertook a massive study to better understand chimps. The team analyzed data from fecal samples of 828 wild chimpanzees across 30 populations, ...

In 2011, “Think Out Loud” host Dave Miller interviewed Jane Goodall when she visited Oregon. We listen back to that conversation about her remarkable life and more than a half century of studying ...

Jane Goodall was just 26 years old when she first stepped foot onto the pebbly shore of what’s now Gombe Stream National Park in July of 1960. Though she lacked any formal scientific training, she ...

Jane Goodall, the pioneering chimpanzee researcher who changed our understanding of what it means to be human, died while on tour in California at 91 years old. The Jane Goodall Institute posted a ...

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