Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

These differences also offer valuable insights into the diversity of social strategies in primates, including humans. Chimpanzees and bonobos are physically similar and belong to the genus Pan, family ...

A new study from Indiana University discovered that bonobos, humans’ closest living relatives, make similar vocalizations ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...

Rather than chasing grammar in animals, a more grounded approach asks what cognitive difference might explain the gap ...

Talking to babies in a high-pitched voice and using exaggerated pronunciation seems natural to most parents. This way of ...

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If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

An almost universal phenomenon in humans is the use of child-directed speech, where caregivers communicate with children often involving a particular ...