When people talk to each other, their conversations usually include many fast twists. Humans do not naturally talk in Shakespearean soliloquies, but by regularly interrupting and wildly gesticulating.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Across human languages and cultures, conversing involves listening to the speaker and rapidly responding to them. This phenomenon, known as ...

A recent study on chimpanzees in Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, revealed that chimpanzees are losing traditions of male mating gestures. This coincides with declining chimpanzee ...

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 ...

Although the genetic differences are small, as illustrated in the above stretch of FOXP2, and the neural differences still largely unknown, there is a world of difference between the mind of a chimp ...

For more than a century, historical documents show researchers have conducted experiments to determine whether apes are capable of communicating not only with members of their own species, but with ...

“I would give anything that I have, possession-wise, for that child. I would give my life for him,” Tonia Haddix says in a trailer for HBO’s “Chimp Crazy” docuseries. She’s talking about Tonka, the 32 ...

New research on chimpanzees is forcing scientists to rethink where the line between human and animal minds really lies. In ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Two months after his previous owner, Robert Tomarchin, sold Mr. Moke to the zoo, Tomarchin broke into the Zoo's ape house and ...