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

In 1996, a 3-year-old boy tumbled 24 feet into a gorilla enclosure at an Illinois zoo. Then, a Western Lowland Gorilla named ...

Barbados has established itself as one of the most unique hotspots in the world for golf, with Apes Hill, standing out as one ...

Apes include a rather broad range of simians (higher primates) from the Old World. Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people ...

A small team of Wits APES students and Hlanzekile River and Ocean Cleaning volunteers removed waste from the Westdene Spruit, restoring the Melville Koppies ecosystem.

A study showed that sex-based hierarchies in primates are more fluid than has been assumed, raising questions about the ...

Age of Apes is a highly addictive MMO mobile game where you're a monkey in a world engulfed in an all-out war with other ...

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

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

Great apes, including bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, all produce vocalizations resembling human laughter during play. Previous research using acoustic analysis suggests that these ...

Researchers show that even large silverback gorillas spend a substantial amount of time in trees Bwindi mountain gorillas in Uganda and western lowland gorillas in Gabon spend significantly more time ...

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