Chimpanzees and humans already share 98.8% of the same DNA — they might as well learn to share conversation, too. New research has found that chimps send “rapid fire” gestures back and forth ...

She is named - like her mother - after the eponymous Looney Tunes rabbit (beating out other contenders in a naming contest.) Chimpanzees have an expected lifespan of 50-60 years in captivity and ...

New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results, published in Current ...

A new scientific paper reports that chimpanzees "are capable of" producing sounds that mimic words that they hear from people. It builds on unrelated, recent research that chimpanzees can gesture ...

In the study, the team collected data on chimpanzee “conversations” across five wild communities in East Africa. Their dataset represented more than 8,500 gestures for 252 individual chimpanzees.

Chimpanzees are humans' closest living relatives. But does much of their communication resembles ours? According to a new study published earlier this week in the journal Current Biology ...

Chimpanzee moms are like us: They mourn, dote, and take 'me' time. New research is revealing more about chimp motherhood, vital knowledge that can help conserve the endangered species.