Benjamin Beck, an authority on "tooling," offers a state-of-the art clarification of this fascinating behavior and why it's essential to know more about the nitty-gritty details.

Wild chimpanzees show reduced participation and performance in their tool-use behaviours as they experience old age, according to long-term video observations. The study, published today in eLife, ...

While it's normally chimpanzees that are applauded for it, a team in Austria has just reported the first known case of a cow using tools. 13-year-old Veronika lives in a mountain village and has spent ...