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 ...

The study by the University of Zurich suggests the primates may have a culture more similar to that of humans than previously thought. The scientists say their research helps to show what does and ...

Chimpanzees at Dudley Zoo have been taught simple sign language to identify body parts. The zookeepers say the prompts can be useful if the chimps become ill and need to explain where it hurts.

THEY can count, learn language and show some signs of a culture. Now Scots scientists have discovered another sign of chimpanzees' intelligence - they can catch yawns just like humans. Psychologists ...

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 ...

Chimpanzees at Dudley Zoo have been taught simple sign language to identify body parts. The zookeepers say the prompts can be useful if the chimps become ill and need to explain where it hurts.