Great apes: what we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research

By Alejandro Sánchez-Amaro, Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Stirling

Leipzig Zoo in central Germany is a world-leading centre of great ape research. Recent studies have seen chimpanzees there using touchscreen controls to navigate virtual forests and locate food rewards – applying similar techniques to what they would use in the wild.

Other research (of which I was part) has investigated chimpanzees’ social curiosity. We discovered they actively seek out information…

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