A new scientific paper reports that chimpanzees “are capable of” producing sounds that mimic words they hear from people. It follows recent research revealing that chimpanzees can gesture to one ...

How can chimpanzees, so closely related to humans, have almost no sense of rhythm? Behavioral biologist Michelle Spierings and two students demonstrated that chimps can actually drum and move ...

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

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Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal noise, a small region in the auditory cortex lights up in a way that looks ...