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 ...

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just like people, chimpanzees and bonobos aren't ones for leaving without saying goodbye. Apes purposefully use signals to begin and end social interactions -- behaviors not typically seen outside of ...

Exploring these differences formed the crux of a new study that documented laughing patterns between primates — a very ...

Researchers tested if apes could exercise “theory of mind” and found that they can tell if someone is ignorant and will leap ...

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 ...