Since you can’t exactly breathalyze a wild ape, Aleksey Maro, a UC Berkeley researcher, spent his days collecting chimpanzee urine from the forest floor. Guided by Ugandan student Sharifah Namaganda, ...

A study published in the journal Biology Letters has provided the strongest physiological evidence yet that wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) regularly consume alcohol as part of their natural diet.

Wild chimpanzees across multiple African field sites regularly consume ethanol through ripe and fermented fruit, absorbing enough alcohol to register in their urine and potentially shedding light on ...

Chimps really are "drunken monkeys" - and actively seek out alcohol in their native habitat, suggests new research. Urine testing confirmed alcohol consumption among wild African chimpanzees with 17 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young chimp is suspended from its feet at the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project at Kibale National Park in Uganda. After studying videos ...

As the world mourns Jane Goodall, the pioneering chimpanzee scientist and campaigner who died last week aged 91, it's worth asking what chimpanzees can still teach us about climate change. They not ...

Chimpanzees consistently choose crystals over ordinary rocks, suggesting a curiosity that may echo early humans.