Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...

To get our points across, humans use numerous gestures and shift the speed and tone of our speech. We are not the only members of the animal kingdom to do this. According to new observations from a ...

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

New research shows that chimpanzees regularly communicate with each other through rapid back-and-forth gestures, similar to how humans talk. Reading time 2 minutes Chimpanzees and humans are even more ...

Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives. But how much of their communication resembles ours? A lot, it turns out. According to a study published Monday in the journal Current Biology, chimpanzees ...

A similar disorganized attachment can occur in captive chimpanzees, particularly orphans who are raised by humans. A lack of a permanent caregiver can lead to this more fearful behavior. However, in ...