Common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are widespread in the forested parts of West, Central, and East Africa. Pygmy chimpanzees, or bonobos (P. paniscus), are restricted to the swampy lowland forests of the Zaire basin. Despite their names, common...

Chimpanzee, often shortened to chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of apes in the genus Pan. The better known chimpanzee is Pan troglodytes, the Common Chimpanzee, living primarily in West, and Central Africa. Its cousin, the Bonobo or...

Using tools -- all humans do it Whether it's a hammer to install shelves in your bedroom, or a wrench to fix the wheels on your skateboard, you've probably used tools on many occasions throughout your life. In the past, most...

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Jane Goodall, the world's best-known observer of chimpanzee behavior, watched the chimps at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo on Saturday while a crowd of zoo-goers gathered to watch her."She's very important," one woman told two 6-year-old girls she'd brought to the zoo. "She did a lot...

Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept.Washoe, who first learned a bit of American Sign Language in a research project in Nevada, had been living...

This essay is about how close humans and chimpanzees are related to one another as told in 'Selections from Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe' by Jane Goodall.