The discovery more than four decades ago that wild chimpanzees habitually made and used
tools (Goodall 1964) helped to put a fairly abrupt end to the notion that tool use was a …

This paper aims to review a long-term research project exploring the chimpanzee mind
within historical and ecological contexts. The Ai project began in 1978 and was directly …

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

In The Genesis of Animal Play, Gordon Burghardt examines the origins and evolution of play
in humans and animals. He asks what play might mean in our understanding of evolution …

This article explores the origin and evolutionary implications of anthropomorphism in the
context of our relationships with animal companions. On the human side, anthropomorphic …

The chimpanzees of Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, form a unique community which
displays an exceptional array of tool use behaviors and behavioral adaptations to …

Attachments between non-human animals of different species are surprisingly common in
situations involving human agency (eg, homes, zoos, and wildlife parks). However, cross …

For the past two centuries, non‐human primates have been reported to inspect, protect,
retrieve, carry or drag the dead bodies of their conspecifics and, for nearly the same amount …

Where We Stand Field workers—scientists of animal (including human!) behavior in nature—
have long been fascinated by wild chimpanzees. A person who once has studied wild …

the last common ancestor, the name H. rhodesiensis would take priority if the Broken Hill
fossil is included. However, a study on Pleistocene and modern human mandibles argues …