Chimps apply engineering skills to select tools with the right characteristic for hunting termites. This can teach us more ...

It takes 24 hours to get from Google’s headquarters in California to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. The journey involves two planes, with stops in Amsterdam and Kilimanjaro, a puddle ...

The results were telling. Plants selected by chimpanzees to make tools were significantly more flexible — on average, 175% ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool ...

The rules at Gombe National Park say that you must not approach closely ... sometimes with a few friends, to watch chimps or sandhill cranes or black-footed ferrets and to restore her energy ...

The world's top expert on wild chimpanzees has been a champion of animals and the environment for more than six decades ...

Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide ...

Chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park demonstrated engineering skills by carefully selecting specific plants to craft flexible tools for termite fishing, according to new research ...

Researchers studying wild chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania found that the apes selected tool materials based on mechanical properties that align with the laws of physics.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, has discovered that ...

Chimpanzees in Gombe National Park use engineering to create flexible tools for termite fishing, raising questions about learning and transmission.