Researchers at Kyoto University spent more than 600 hours studying 20 captive chimps to determine if urination is socially contagious among them.

Monkey vs Chimpanzee: Communication Monkeys can interact with one another, but their communication is less complex than apes. Monkeys use facial expressions, vocalizations, and bodily gestures to ...

Just as people often yawn or scratch themselves when they see someone else do so, for chimpanzees, peeing is contagious ...

Koko the chimpanzee was a happy-go-lucky fellow, but he couldn't shake one nagging thought: his lack of a tail.

Learn about a new study of captive chimpanzees, the first to identify the phenomenon of contagious urinations.

Urinating is a contagious behaviour among chimpanzees, a study has found ...

In a lab test, chimps and orangutans can recognize their own reflection. But in the wild, baboons seemingly can’t do the same.

Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important ...

Synchronized urination may reinforce social bonds and improve group cohesion among chimps, according to new research.

Science purports to have solved the proverbial question of whether infinite monkeys clacking away at typewriters could recreate Shakespeare’s works. They haven’t.

"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 ...

Humans are known to invent private hand gestures. Chimps in the wild do, too, a new study suggests. By Brandon Keim Parents and their children, or people who know each other well, often share some ...