A chimpanzee who used American Sign Language to communicate as the second youngest member of a family of chimps in Washington has unexpectedly died at the age of 36. Dar was one of three signing ...

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 ...

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 speak. Apes including chimpanzees, ...

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 ...

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 ...

And it was certainly not the first chimp to capture the public's imagination with incredible skills. In the 1970s Washoe the chimp became the first non-human to learn to communicate using American ...