A new scientific paper reports that chimpanzees "are capable of" producing sounds that mimic words that they hear from people. It builds on unrelated, recent research that chimpanzees can gesture ...

Chimpanzees and humans already share 98.8% of the same DNA — they might as well learn to share conversation, too. New research has found that chimps send “rapid fire” gestures back and forth ...

Experts confirm chimpanzees interrupt each other, gesticulating wildly just like humans That's not the only conversational similarity the primates share with humans. By Matthew Rozsa.

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

A female wild chimpanzee (shown) uses vocal communication. The apes combine single sounds to create phrases with new meanings, much like in human language, a new study finds.

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results, published in Current ...

The new drumming study analyzed 371 drumming bouts in 11 chimpanzee communities in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Senegal, Uganda, and Tanzania. “Until recently, there wasn't a lot of convincing ...

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees and humans last shared a common ancestor around 6 million years ago. “Our ability to produce ...