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 ...

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.

ELLENSBURG -- Moja, a chimpanzee trained to communicate using American Sign Language, was found dead yesterday at Central Washington University. The 29-year-old chimp, whose name meant "first" in ...

Dr. R. Allen Gardner, the American ethologist who trained a chimpanzee to use sign languageDr. R. Allen Gardner, the American ethologist who trained a chimpanzee to use sign language ...

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 ...

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 ...