Risk-taking comes earlier in chimpanzees than in humans, study finds

Mongabay
Feb 6, 2026, 4:07 am122 pts
Chimpanzees appear to be the biggest daredevils when they’re infants. Humans tend to take more chances and put themselves in the most danger in adolescence, so the expectation has been that chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), among our closest evolutionary cousins, follow a similar pattern. But undergraduate…

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