Hate waiting in line for the bathroom? Chimpanzees have a social solution: Go all at once. A new study shows that peeing is contagious in chimpanzees, making it “the first study to investigate ...

The study in 20 captive chimpanzees living at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Japan shows that, when one chimp pees, others are more likely to follow. A new study reported in the Cell Press journal ...

For chimpanzees, the need to pee appears to be contagious. A study published January 20 in the journal Current Biology finds that when one chimpanzee urinates, the others in a group are more ...

Three chimpanzees in an enclosure holding leafy branches. Credit: Kumamoto Sanctuary A new study has found that chimpanzees are more likely to urinate after observing a fellow chimp do so, ...

"Urination, a seemingly simple physiological act, can also spread socially within a group." A recent study in the journal Current Biology led by scientists at Kyoto University's Wildlife Research ...

The night before, the country’s preeminent primatologist Dr. Emily Otali had briefed me on what to expect during my trek into the jungle, while staying at Kibale Lodge—the newest property in Volcanoes ...

The the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that animals are not people. But by always categorizing animals as property, are we ...

To be an artist, or not to be? That is the question of "Grand Theft Hamlet," a guns-blazingly funny documentary about two out ...

A chilling experiment from the 1930s saw a baby being raised alongside a chimpanzee, with haunting images showing the child in tears after being spun around repeatedly. The study, which was ...