This important study uses long-term behavioural observations to understand the factors that influence female-on-female aggression in gorilla social groups. The evidence supporting the claims is ...

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

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

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 ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

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

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

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) and the University of Konstanz in Germany, working with scientists in Indonesia, found that orangutans have a very similar coping ...

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

Humans from different cultures speak to their children using a form of speech known as “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. Though to us, it may seem natural to communicate directly with our ...