apes

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To investigate how great apes manage their social lives, researchers examined social grooming behavior in 24 groups of chimpanzees and bonobos.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

Although there aren’t any other cooperative breeders among the great apes, there are South American treetop monkeys called marmosets and tamarins who do cooperate to raise young.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

Attenborough wanted to explain how the development of thumbs and fingers allowed apes to grip tools.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

With the Ngogo chimps, researchers aren’t certain what prompted the split, but said it’s possible the apes were victims of their own success.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

What would it mean about God’s creation if apes and humans were related?

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman