chimpanzee
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Chimps Might Use Insects as First Aid, Scientists Find
Researchers have documented a remarkable behaviour among wild chimpanzees: chimps applying insects to wounds on themselves or others, perhaps as a sort of first aid. Little is still known about the practice, but the researchers suspect it to be the latest example of altruistic behaviour in nonhuman animals.
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For the First Time Ever, Scientists Witness Chimps Killing Gorillas
New research details two fatal encounters in which wild chimpanzees attacked and killed gorillas. It’s a rare example of one great ape species attacking another — and scientists are worried that climate change might have something to do with it.
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What a Fossilised Hand Says About the Last Common Ancestor Between Humans and Chimpanzees
More than 1 million years before the early hominin known as Lucy was striding across the Afar region of Ethiopia, the lesser-known Ardipithecus ramidus roamed approximately the same area. Now, a team of anthropologists have looked at the 4.4 million-year-old fossilised hand of one specimen (affectionately dubbed “Ardi”), and argue that the human ancestors’ roaming…