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

A new five-year study has revealed that wild chimpanzees in West Africa may be using stones to communicate with one another.

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

A recent study by behavioral biologists from Wageningen University & Research and the German Primate Research Center has ...

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

A chimpanzee in a tree ... previous studies have suggested on the basis of comparisons of patterns of hand/foot trait relationships, and evolutionary simulations, among humans and chimpanzees ...

Adult chimpanzees often drum with their feet, Hobaiter says, "so they're using their hands to hold on to those roots and then they're kind of dancing." Chimps use drumming to communicate over long ...

When Lindsay wants to climb on her mother’s back and travel, she puts one hand over Beryl’s eye — a gesture that no other chimpanzee is known to make. It’s their own private sign.