Are helicopter parents the reason kids don’t turn rebellious until their teenage years, when they finally get some autonomy?

The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

Adolescents are known for risky behavior, with teenagers in the US more likely than younger children to die from injury.

Chimpanzees show physical risk taking peaks in infancy, not adolescence, highlighting the powerful role of supervision in ...

A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social ...

Ai, a female chimpanzee famous for her cognitive skills has died at 49, according to the Japanese institute where she lived.

Bonobo chimpanzees are unique among primates because they do not kill other bonobos. … They still showed increased alertness ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University Anthropology Professor Jill Pruetz long suspected that man-made changes influenced the aggressive behavior researchers have observed among chimpanzees. However, her ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are among the closest living relatives of humans. They share more than 98% of our DNA, highlighting ...

Ai, a "genius" chimpanzee who could recognise more than 100 Chinese characters and the English alphabet, has died aged 49, ...

A shriek broke the dawn on the savanna, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli chimps were ...