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 ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

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.

In the study, the team collected data on chimpanzee “conversations” across five wild communities in East Africa. Their dataset represented more than 8,500 gestures for 252 individual chimpanzees.

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 ...

Compared to children, adults don't play as much, but social play into adulthood is considered a universal human trait. Play has a role in building tolerance, cohesion, bonding, and cooperation. By ...

Most chimpanzee populations do not use a complex set of tools, in a specific sequence, to extract food. But some regularly do. And these groups are likely to be genetically related.