Once every month or two Barbara J. King boards a train to see a Washington, D.C., family she has been visiting for years. Mandara, Kuja and their offspring greet her with gestures and grunts each time ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn’t know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

Apes use signals to start and end interactions in much the same way that humans greet each other and say goodbye, a study suggests. This behaviour had not been observed outside the human species until ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study suggests that great apes (specifically gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) seem to track events in the way that we ...

From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create language. Now, it's been suggested that humans can also understand sign language used by ...

Researchers tested if apes could exercise “theory of mind” and found that they can tell if someone is ignorant and will leap ...

A recent study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University revealed that bonobos have the ability to recognize ...

Just like people, chimpanzees and bonobos aren't ones for leaving without saying goodbye. Apes purposefully use signals to begin and end social interactions -- behaviors not typically seen outside of ...

What can chimpanzees teach us about ourselves? A lot, says Craig Stanford, who's spent three decades studying the lives of our closest cousins. Humans share upwards of 98% of their DNA with the great ...