Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook If there’s one thing that sets man apart from all other creatures, it’s our extraordinary use of ...

In the new movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the leader of the ape revolution can talk. In the real world, apes can’t speak; they have thinner tongues and a higher larynx, or vocal box, than ...

Barbara J. King remembers the first time she met Kanzi the bonobo. It was the late 1990s, and the ape was living in a research center in Georgia. King walked in and told Kanzi she had a present. A ...

A bonobo renowned for communicating with humans has died at a struggling Iowa sanctuary, and some of the remaining six great apes are also sick, TheDes Moines Register reports. Panbanisha, 26, died of ...