Go Ad-Free
My Alerts
Moneycontrol
Moneycontrol PRO
Get App Open
In App
News on WhatsApp
News on WhatsApp
Go PRO Now
Open App
Homescience

10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Chimpanzee Intelligence

From clever tools to complex social interactions, explore these fascinating facts highlighting chimpanzee intelligence and extraordinary cognitive abilities.

Gurpreet Singh | October 03, 2025 / 16:05 IST
1/10
1. Tool Mastery: Chimpanzees use sticks to fish for termites, rocks to crack nuts, and leaves to collect water, demonstrating advanced problem-solving skills. (Image: Canva)
1. Tool Mastery: Chimpanzees use sticks to fish for termites, rocks to crack nuts, and leaves to collect water, demonstrating advanced problem-solving skills. (Image: Canva)
2/10
2. Social Learning: Young chimps learn by observing elders, copying complex behaviours and adapting strategies, showing culture-like traditions within their communities. (Image: Canva)
2. Social Learning: Young chimps learn by observing elders, copying complex behaviours and adapting strategies, showing culture-like traditions within their communities. (Image: Canva)
3/10
3. Communication Skills: They communicate with facial expressions, gestures, and vocalisations, conveying emotions, intentions and warnings across their social groups effectively. (Image: Canva)
3. Communication Skills: They communicate with facial expressions, gestures, and vocalisations. They convey emotions, intentions and warnings across their social groups effectively. (Image: Canva)
4/10
4. Memory Marvels: Chimpanzees exhibit remarkable memory skills, remembering locations of food sources and sequences of tasks over long periods. (Image: Canva)
4. Memory Marvels: Chimpanzees exhibit remarkable memory skills, remembering locations of food sources and sequences of tasks over long periods. (Image: Canva)
5/10
5. Cooperation Experts: Chimps work together to hunt, share food, and defend territories, demonstrating collaboration, empathy and strategic planning abilities. (Image: Canva)
5. Cooperation Experts: Chimps work together to hunt, share food and defend territories. They demonstrate collaboration, empathy and strategic planning abilities. (Image: Canva)
6/10
6. Problem Solvers: Faced with obstacles, chimpanzees invent solutions using available objects, showcasing creativity and flexibility in challenging situations. (Image: Canva)
6. Problem Solvers: Faced with obstacles, chimpanzees invent solutions using available objects, showcasing creativity and flexibility in challenging situations. (Image: Canva)
7/10
7. Emotional Intelligence: Chimps display empathy, grief, joy and playfulness, indicating a sophisticated understanding of emotions in themselves and others. (Image: Canva)
7. Emotional Intelligence: Chimps display empathy, grief, joy and playfulness, indicating a sophisticated understanding of emotions in themselves and others. (Image: Canva)
8/10
8. Self-Awareness: Experiments show chimps recognize themselves in mirrors, demonstrating self-awareness, reflection and advanced cognitive functioning. (Image: Canva)
8. Self-Awareness: Experiments show chimps recognize themselves in mirrors, demonstrating self-awareness, reflection and advanced cognitive functioning. (Image: Canva)
9/10
9. Cultural Traditions: Distinct behaviours vary between chimp communities, suggesting cultural transmission and localised traditions passed across generations. (Image: Canva)
9. Cultural Traditions: Distinct behaviours vary between chimp communities, suggesting cultural transmission and localised traditions passed across generations. (Image: Canva)
10/10
10. Future Thinkers: Some chimps anticipate future needs, saving tools for later use, proving their capacity for foresight and complex planning. (Image: Canva)
10. Future Thinkers: Some chimps anticipate future needs, saving tools for later use, proving their capacity for foresight and complex planning. (Image: Canva)

Discover the latest Business News, Budget 2025 News, Sensex, and Nifty updates. Obtain Personal Finance insights, tax queries, and expert opinions on Moneycontrol or download the Moneycontrol App to stay updated!

Advisory Alert: It has come to our attention that certain individuals are representing themselves as affiliates of Moneycontrol and soliciting funds on the false promise of assured returns on their investments. We wish to reiterate that Moneycontrol does not solicit funds from investors and neither does it promise any assured returns. In case you are approached by anyone making such claims, please write to us at grievanceofficer@nw18.com or call on 02268882347