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

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

Just like humans, chimps have rhythm when drumming, which suggests that the trait evolved in our common ancestor ...

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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.

The new work showed that chimps from different regions of Africa drum with distinctly different rhythms, with western chimps ...

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