Last year, Maro and his colleagues estimated wild chimpanzees’ alcohol intake based on the amount of fermented fruit they eat ...

Chimpanzees love their alcohol. Among our closest primate relatives, they frequently feast on fermented fruit in the wild. So ...

A urinalysis shows that these apes ingest significant amounts of alcohol, providing new clues to how alcohol influences the animals’ behavior ...

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison University expected to find risky behavior to peak in adolescence in a study of ...

Chimpanzees exhibit surprising human-like behaviors, including using leaf-tearing as a flirting technique, mirroring ...

Learn how urine tests revealed that wild chimpanzees metabolize alcohol from naturally fermented fruit, and what that could mean for human evolution.

When I talk about my time in the field, and how wonderful and fascinating chimpanzees are, one thing that often surprises people is that chimps eat meat. Listeners are truly shocked—"Wait what?" they ...