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When humans have conversations, we take turns speaking, sometimes even interrupting each other. Now, a study published in Current Biology on Monday reports that chimpanzees follow a similar ...

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A recent study by behavioral biologists from Wageningen University & Research and the German Primate Research Center has uncovered a remarkable phenomenon among wild chimpanzees in West Africa: the ...

When people talk to each other, their conversations usually include many fast twists. Humans do not naturally talk in Shakespearean soliloquies, but by regularly interrupting and wildly gesticulating.

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 to one ...

Humans are known to invent private hand gestures. Chimps in the wild do, too, a new study suggests. By Brandon Keim Parents and their children, or people who know each other well, often share some ...

New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language. Chimpanzees drum and make calls to communicate. Two new studies have found ...

Photo: Fernando Turmo July 14 marks World Chimpanzee Day, commemorating the day a young Jane Goodall first arrived in Gombe, ...

Across the forests of central and western Africa, two of the most remarkable primates on Earth live very different lives despite sharing a close evolutionary relationship with humans. Chimpanzees and ...