Chimpanzees are our closest living ancestors, however now researchers say, despite not being able to speak they have a complicated communication system. According to a new study, chimpanzees use ...

We have changed from wanting animals to understand human language to wanting to understand how they communicate with each ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. Washoe, who first ...

Kiyomasa, a 13-year-old western lowland gorilla at Japan's Higashiyama Zoo, has become an internet sensation after a video showed him sitting alone in a thoughtful pose following a reported ...

The Number That Explains Almost Nothing Gorillas and humans share 98.3% of their DNA. That figure comes from genome ...

Summary: Laughter is a universal human trait shared by all living great apes, including chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. However, the exact evolutionary trajectory of laughter, and how ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

The study compared laughter from four orangutans, two gorillas, three bonobos, four chimpanzees, and four human children, ...

While laughing seems uniquely human, it is not. Researchers now have compared laughter in humans to laughter in the various ...

Rockhampton Zoo's chimpanzee, Sile, dropped baby Cassie in the hours after birth, fracturing its femur. The newborn is now in a cast and staff are hand-rearing it. Despite the fall, keepers say mum ...

Researchers have discovered similarities in laughter patterns between humans and great apes, including chimpanzees, bonobos, ...