Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal noise, a small region in the auditory cortex lights up in a way that looks ...
Grunts, barks, screams and pants ring through Taï National Park in Cȏte d’Ivoire. Chimpanzees there combine these different calls like linguistic Legos to relay complex meanings when communicating, ...
Chimpanzees Asanti and Akuna vocalising. A new study shows that wild chimpanzees use a variety of call combinations to expand messaging. Humans are the only species on earth known to use language.
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Since 2010, Dr. Raven Jackson has been the attending veterinarian at Chimp Haven. 317 chimpanzees call Chimp Haven home. It’s the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in the world for ...