Researchers found that chimpanzees update their beliefs based on evidence, showing a human-like ability to reason and reflect ...

This cognitive skill is known as belief revision. It’s long been considered a hallmark of human rationality that ...

In a series of experiments designed to test the metacognition of these fascinating apes, psychologist Hanna Schleihauf of ...

Chimpanzees show the capacity to weigh clues, track options, and change their minds when better evidence shows up.

Chimpanzees may share more cognitive abilities with humans than was once believed. A new study finds that chimps can revise ...

Follow this three-part series to see the development of an intelligent platform that draws fresh insights from decades of ...

Animals respond to injury in many ways. So far, evidence for animals tending wounds with biologically active materials is ...

Young chimpanzees are remarkably innovative, inventing tools and improving on ones that adults use—and this technical ...

Charlie came to the Houston Zoo on June 14, 2010. The date was a meaningful one as it coincided with the 50th anniversary of ...

Her breakthrough studies studying chimpanzees in Tanzania not only found that the primates used tools, but had their own personalities and emotions. Long before Jane Goodall was crowned a U.N.

I f you’d swung by to see the chimps at Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden, back in 1997, there’s a good chance you might’ve ...