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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 ...
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 ...
Sep. 30, 2022 —Drawn from more than 20 years of observations at Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, researchers documented lasting social ties between individual chimpanzees and gorillas that ...
Apr. 6, 2022 —Scientists have solved a 100-year-old mystery about the evolutionary links between malaria parasites that infect humans and ...
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 ...
Sep. 5, 2022 —Researchers are protecting great apes from diseases by studying the behavior and expectations of tourists who visit ...
Feb. 23, 2023 —Scientists conducted a study that reveals the first evidence of harm caused by malaria infection among wild African apes. They discovered that bonobo populations differ in a key immune trait ...
Sep. 18, 2020 —A new study shows that orphaned male chimpanzees are less competitive and have fewer offspring of their own than those who continue to live with their mothers. The remaining puzzle is, what is it ...
Oct. 12, 2021 —A new study is the first to show that gorillas are able to recognize familiar human voices based on their relationship with the ...
May 6, 2021 —In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded, but so has the level of dispute concerning early human ...