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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Man's closest animal relative, chimps, communicate in a distinctly 'human-like' way, scientists have found. The primates use gestures that follow some of the same rules as basic human language. One ...

RESEARCHERS have compiled the world's first "chimpanzee dictionary". A team from St Andrews University translated the meaning of gestures that wild chimpanzees use to communicate, revealing that man's ...

When Jenny Lee was 13, an unusual guest joined her family: a chimpanzee. Nim, the 3-year old chimp, became “like a brother” to her, Lee says, while he lived and played with her family in a ...

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 ...

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 ...