While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

Apes include a rather broad range of simians (higher primates) from the Old World. Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people ...

If these 10 animals went to school, they’d definitely be the class toppers because of their incredible intelligence, ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

A new study from Indiana University discovered that bonobos, humans’ closest living relatives, make similar vocalizations ...

Rather than chasing grammar in animals, a more grounded approach asks what cognitive difference might explain the gap ...

Each evening, before turning in for the night, orangutans “make their beds,” building leafy nests of twigs and foliage to ...

Anybody who has ever struggled to get enough sleep knows just how much in life can interfere with our rest, and just how ...

“For people, even a short nap can have significant restorative effects,” noted the researchers. “It’s possible that these ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) and the University of Konstanz in Germany, working with ...

Titus was just 4 years old when poachers killed his father and several other close adults in his group. Despite the violence, ...