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

Planet of the Apes might be right in this no matter their own biases, considering that, if it comes down to no weapons at all, a gorilla is likely able to defeat anyone in its path pretty easily.

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

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

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 ...