A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.

A new scientific paper reports that chimpanzees “are capable of” producing sounds that mimic words they hear from people. It follows recent research revealing that chimpanzees can gesture to one ...

The future of chimpanzees depends on smart conservation strategies and that requires data, lots of data. Ecologist Adrienne Chitayat conducted research on chimpanzees in Tanzania and is the first to ...

Chimpanzee calls activate key human brain voice regions, revealing ancient neural links that may reshape our understanding of language origins.

Like humans, chimpanzees drum with distinct rhythms – and two subspecies living on opposite sides of Africa have their own ...