The more recent example of the two, filmed inside Suncoast Primate Center in Palm Harbor, Florida, saw a chimpanzee named Johnny speak the word in exchange for a red Twizzler when prompted by a ...

An adult female chimpanzee cracks an oil palm nut with a stone hammer and anvil while her infant son looks at the camera. Some chimpanzees appear to be more skilled nutcrackers than others.

LOXAHATCHEE — Santa delivered gifts last week to the chimpanzees at Lion Country Safari. They frantically ripped through shiny wrapping paper and cardboard boxes filled with popcorn, blankets ...

Video from 2012 showing the individual variation in nut-cracking efficiency in the Bossou chimpanzees. The first cracker is Peley, a 14-year-old adult male who successfully cracks two oil palm nuts.

Chimpanzees in Guinea have been observed drinking palm wine, the naturally fermented sap of raffia palms. According to a 2015 ...

Primarily, chimps are frugivores. This means they rely heavily on fruit. In fact, fruit makes up about 80% of their diet. The preferred fruits include figs, bananas, oil palm, and wild berries.

Chimpanzees and humans already share 98.8% of the same DNA — they might as well learn to share conversation, too. New research has found that chimps send “rapid fire” gestures back and forth ...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Pongo the Orangutan is the star of the show at Palm Harbor's Suncoast Primate Sanctuary, a good home for great apes and monkeys.. And if a new leadership group at the ...

This group of chimps are well-known for their diverse range of tool-use behaviors—in particular, their distinctive utilization of moveable rocks as hammers and anvils to crack open oil palm nuts.

Experts confirm chimpanzees interrupt each other, gesticulating wildly just like humans That's not the only conversational similarity the primates share with humans. By Matthew Rozsa.

Primarily, chimps are frugivores. This means they rely heavily on fruit. In fact, fruit makes up about 80% of their diet. The preferred fruits include figs, bananas, oil palm, and wild berries.