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

There are many unsolved questions scientists have about the world. No one really was wondering what makes chimps pee, but ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...