A WWE SmackDown star reveals how and why they learned American Sign Language (ASL). Speaking to host Mike Brindisi on a ...
Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...
Chimps may revise their beliefs in surprisingly human-like ways. Experiments showed they switched choices when presented with stronger clues, demonstrating flexible reasoning. Computational modeling ...
Twenty-five years after the film's release, the chimps from "MVP" feel the lingering effects of a life in show business. Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Tim DiFrisco / Getty, Tom Pidgeon / Getty ...
Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to change their minds, research shows. When you purchase through links on our ...
People walk along Main Street at the Soda City Market just before the author started saying “Hey there!” on Oct. 18, 2025. Emerson Smith Jane Goodall, an English anthropologist specializing in living ...
Jane Goodall, an English anthropologist specializing in living with and studying chimpanzees and other great apes, passed away on Oct. 1 at the age of 91. She encouraged everyone to support the ...
Kayla Kolff received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), project number 274877981 (GRK-2185/1: DFG Research Training Group Situated Cognition). Animals respond to injury in many ways.
This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. As the world mourns Jane Goodall, the pioneering chimpanzee ...
Chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park love eating figs, which scientists found had the highest level of alcohol at the site. Aleksey Maro / UC Berkeley Wild chimpanzees consume vast amounts of ...
In 2014, University of California, Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley wrote a book called The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol. His controversial “drunken monkey hypothesis” proposed that ...
Human cravings for booze may have deep evolutionary roots, a new study has shown. The study, published in Science Advances, involved observing the eating behaviors of chimpanzees—"our closest living ...