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 ...

Bonobo facial expressions reveal complex communication; new system maps 28 moves from distinct muscle actions.

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 ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for ...

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

We may call it human decency, but it’s not just humans who have it. Bonobos, the friendly hippies of the primate world, are willing to help strangers even if there’s nothing in it for them ...

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