We have changed from wanting animals to understand human language to wanting to understand how they communicate with each ...

Kiyomasa, a 13-year-old western lowland gorilla at Japan's Higashiyama Zoo, has become an internet sensation after a video showed him sitting alone in a thoughtful pose following a reported ...

Celeste Amarilla made numerous racist comments about the French national team’s captain after Paraguay lost to France in the ...

Koreans have long known a secret about surviving the summer: fight heat with fear. For decades, the arrival of the monsoon ...

Summary: Laughter is a universal human trait shared by all living great apes, including chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. However, the exact evolutionary trajectory of laughter, and how ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

While laughing seems uniquely human, it is not. Researchers now have compared laughter in humans to laughter in the various ...

Simon Green has returned to the studio for new Bonobo album Distance in Static, the DJ/producer’s follow-up to 2022’s Fragments. Out September 11 via Ninja Tune, the record features vocal turns from ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

Every federally recognized tribe in Wisconsin now has dual language signs at their border. The signs use both English and the ...

Exploring these differences formed the crux of a new study that documented laughing patterns between primates — a very ...

What began as a communication challenge between a woman and her deaf cat has turned into a remarkable story about feline intelligence and learning. Huckleberry, a white cat adopted in Australia, went ...