Charla Nash was gruesomely attacked by a friend's chimp in 2009 and left with no face or hands. Now, thanks to a ...

Chimpanzee Hand Gestures. The study focused on gestures, including various hand signals. Scientists observed over 8,500 gestures for 252 chimps from five separate locations in Africa. They measured ...

Usually, these exchanges had two parts: One chimpanzee might tap the another's hand, and then the other taps back like in this video. Sponsor Message. Animals ...

The long, curved fingers of the chimpanzee hand and the less mobile and weaker thumbs of some monkeys are also capable of generating humanlike, forceful pad-to-pad precision grips.

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 ...