Monkeys are thought to have language 'hard-wired' in their brains after creating a warning call for man-made drones. In the natural world, West African green monkeys have two warning calls, for snakes ...

What do indigenous people from the Amazon rainforest, American adults, pre-school children and macaque monkeys have in common? Not a huge amount, you’d imagine – but it turns out that the way humans ...

Scientists believe they have taken a step closer to understanding the origins of human language after identifying how monkeys combine sounds to convey meaning. 11 December 2009 • 10:28am Campbell's ...

Mr Edwards has written to police and the Press Complaints Commission An MP has complained about a book review which describes Welsh as a "moribund monkey language". Plaid Cymru's Jonathan Edwards has ...

Doctor Dolittle wanted to talk to the animals - now scientists have discovered that certain monkeys, even if they're not talking to us, are at least talking to each other. A research team in the Ivory ...

A PLAID Cymru MP has written angrily to the Home Secretary about a book review in a national newspaper that describes Welsh as an “appalling and moribund monkey language”. Jonathan Edwards, the MP for ...

FORMER Countdown presenter Carol Vorderman has accused an MP of “overreacting” after a writer mocked the Welsh language. Ms Vorderman, who grew up in Denbighshire, questioned Plaid Cymru’s Jonathan ...

Scientists may be a step closer to understanding the origins of human language. Two studies suggest that the ability to combine sounds and words to alter meaning may be rooted in a species of monkey.

Monkeys at Colchester Zoo have invented their own sign language. Milly the mandrill covered her face with her hand, a gesture staff feared meant she had bad sight before realising she was saying ...

An MP has complained about a book review which describes Welsh as a "moribund monkey language". Plaid Cymru's Jonathan Edwards has also asked Home Secretary Teresa May whether the Daily Mail article ...