She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson ...

Ainebyona and others involved in chimp conservation in this remote Ugandan rainforest say they aim for the kind of communion ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.

New research on chimpanzees is forcing scientists to rethink where the line between human and animal minds really lies. In ...

The brain doesn't just recognize the human voice. A study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that certain areas of our auditory cortex respond specifically to the vocalizations of chimpanzees, ...

Musicality may have emerged in a common ancestor of chimps and humans, as both species share similarities in how they drum. Catherine Hobaiter at the University of St Andrews, UK, and her colleagues ...

Lucy the Chimpanzee’s story is an animal rights nightmare. As told in the new documentary Lucy the Human Chimp, psychologist Maurice Temerlin and his wife, Jane, bought the fuzzy primate from a ...

Human communication is a complex weave of words and gestures — a mix of vocal and visual signals. "People use vocal and visual communication in a very rich and combined way," says Joseph Mine, a ...

As scientists have studied the chimpanzee, they’ve found more and more similarities between humans and their closest living relatives. But when it comes to the courts, chimps and humans couldn’t be ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

Humans have a monogamy rating of 66% full siblings, ahead of meerkats (60%) but behind beavers (73%). Meanwhile, our ...