Once every month or two Barbara J. King boards a train to see a Washington, D.C., family she has been visiting for years. Mandara, Kuja and their offspring greet her with gestures and grunts each time ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn’t know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

Apes use signals to start and end interactions in much the same way that humans greet each other and say goodbye, a study suggests. This behaviour had not been observed outside the human species until ...

From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create language. Now, it's been suggested that humans can also understand sign language used by ...

Researchers tested if apes could exercise “theory of mind” and found that they can tell if someone is ignorant and will leap ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that great apes (specifically gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) seem to track events in the way that we ...

Just like people, chimpanzees and bonobos aren't ones for leaving without saying goodbye. Apes purposefully use signals to begin and end social interactions -- behaviors not typically seen outside of ...

Tara Stoinski, chief scientist of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, answers your questions about primates from Twitter. Why do gorillas pound on their chest? How do apes communicate with one another? Why ...

Human language is a fundamentally cooperative enterprise, embodying fast-paced interactions. It has been suggested that it evolved as part of a larger adaptation of humans’ unique forms of cooperation ...

What can chimpanzees teach us about ourselves? A lot, says Craig Stanford, who's spent three decades studying the lives of our closest cousins. Humans share upwards of 98% of their DNA with the great ...