But it came as no surprise to primate experts who know how clever our closest relatives are. And it was certainly not the first chimp to capture the public's imagination with incredible skills. In the ...

That’s how the famous song goes and one zookeeper at Dudley Zoo is proving a real-life Doctor Dolittle . . . well maybe not talking in chimpanzee, but sign language. And now senior keeper Jodie Dryden ...

Humans share elements of a common language with other apes, understanding many gestures that wild chimps and bonobos use to communicate. That is the conclusion of a video-based study in which ...

Chimpanzee sign language apes the way humans communicate, research has shown. The primates employ gestures that follow some of the same rules intrinsic to human language, scientists have learned.

HUMANS understand chimps’ sign language, scientists say. We still have ancient instincts that help us read hand gestures used by our ancestors before we evolved to ...

Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. We do this by combining sounds to form words and words to form hierarchically structured sentences. The question, where this extraordinary ...

Experts made the discovery after studying videos of wild chimps living in Uganda's Budongo Forest Reserve. Like other great apes, chimpanzees lack the ability to speak but make use of meaningful ...

Psychologist Katie Slocombe will talk about human and chimpanzee speech at a Speakezee York lecture in The Basement, City Screen, next week. The lecturer from the University of York will discuss vocal ...

Footage of a chimp scrolling through Instagram took the internet by storm. But it came as no surprise to primate experts who know how clever our closest relatives are. And it was certainly not the ...