Chimpanzees

Science & Nature In a new paper in the journal Current Biology, scientists report socially contagious urination in chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. The...

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Adolescent chimpanzees share some of the same risk-taking behaviors as human teens, but they may be less impulsive than their human counterparts, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. The study gets at age-old nature/nurture questions about why adolescents take more risks: because of environment or because of biological