New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using ...

New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language.

Their results show that eastern and western chimpanzees -- two distinct subspecies -- drum with distinguishable rhythms. The researchers say these findings suggest that the building blocks of ...

A 2022 study from the same research team showed that chimpanzees can drum on the buttress roots of trees. Drumming on these large tree roots that grow above the soil can produce low frequency sounds.

Credit: Adrian Soldati/Current Biology/Cover Images Eat your heart out Dairy Milk gorilla, because chimpanzees are expert drummers, according to new research from scientists. A team of cognitive ...

Their results, publishing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 9, show that eastern and western chimpanzees—two distinct subspecies—drum with distinguishable rhythms. The ...

Keyth Moon! Chimpanzees Are Expert Drummers, Scientists Find. Eat your heart out Dairy Milk gorilla, because chimpanzees are ...

The findings lend fresh weight to the theory that the raw ingredients of human music were present before our evolutionary ...

According to lead researcher Vesta Eleuteri of the University of Vienna, Austria: “Based on our previous work, we expected that western chimpanzees would use more hits and drum more quickly than ...