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Jan. 24, 2023 —Humans retain an understanding of gestures made by other great apes, even though we no longer use them ourselves, according to a new ...
Oct. 21, 2021 —The first-ever Africa-wide assessment of great apes -- gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees -- finds that human factors, including roads, population density and GDP, determine abundance more than ...
Mar. 21, 2022 —Social mingling shapes and transforms the 'vocabularies' of apes, just like in humans, according to new ...
Dec. 20, 2022 —Research finds orangutans communicate using a complex repertoire of consonant-like calls, more so than African apes. Previous research has only linked the evolution of human language with the ...
Sep. 5, 2022 —Researchers are protecting great apes from diseases by studying the behavior and expectations of tourists who visit ...
June 27, 2023 —Orangutans can make two separate sounds simultaneously, much like songbirds or human beatboxers, according to a new ...
Sep. 28, 2021 —Scientists have shown that orangutan call signals believed to be closest to the precursors to human language, travel through forest over long distances without losing their meaning. This throws into ...
Oct. 7, 2020 —A research group showed that gorilla APOBEC3G potentially plays a role in inhibiting SIVcpz replication. Intriguingly, the research group demonstrated that an amino acid substitution in SIVcpz Vif, ...
June 7, 2021 —A new study predicts massive range declines of Africa's great apes -- gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos -- due to the impacts of climate change, land-use changes and human population ...
May 5, 2021 —A new, high-quality bonobo genome assembly has been constructed. It is allowing scientists to more accurately compare the bonobo genome to that of other great apes - the gorilla, orangutan, ...