To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

On August 24, 1661, Samuel Pepys, an administrator in England’s navy and famous diarist, took a break from work to go see a “ strange creature ” that had just arrived on a ship from West Africa. Most ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

Apes use signals to start and end interactions in much the same way that humans greet each other and say goodbye, a study suggests. This behaviour had not been observed outside the human species until ...

A research team, including academics from the University of Warwick, has suggested that apes can understand the communicative goals behind each other's actions—a skill previously thought to be unique ...

Once every month or two Barbara J. King boards a train to see a Washington, D.C., family she has been visiting for years. Mandara, Kuja and their offspring greet her with gestures and grunts each time ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that great apes (specifically gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) seem to track events in the way that we ...

After weeks studying bonobo communication, Xiaoma visits a research center and attempts something unusual: communicating with the apes using their own vocalizations and gestures rather than human ...

An hour’s drive down a ragged dirt road, deep in the heart of Uganda’s Kibale National Park, a small research camp sits in the middle of chimpanzee territory. Tangled vines drape ancient trees in the ...

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