Bubbles now resides at the Center for Great Apes in Florida PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive via Alamy; Center for Great Apes/Facebook Michael Jackson acquired his pet chimpanzee, Bubbles, in the ...

Ape minds have long been treated as clues to humanity’s past. Compare a chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, or orangutan with a ...

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of ...

The rhythmic patterns of laughter found in apes and humans reveal that complex primate vocal control might have started ...

Jane Goodall’s research at Gombe Stream National Park revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzee intelligence. In 1960, she observed a chimp named David Greybeard stripping leaves from twigs to ...

Farah's time with Jenny illustrates that companionship and play can be part of the healing process rather than merely a sweet ...

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.

It was a rainy morning at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, and at the chimpanzee exhibit, it was the children who were hooting and hollering. The apes themselves were placid, ignoring their rowdy ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos were more likely than chimpanzees to comfort others in distress. The study ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t mean our diets are anything alike. Here’s why. Our closest genetic relative is ...

All living great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans - laugh. But until now, it has been unclear how our ...