Back in the 1970s, a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky took part in a Columbia University research study called "Project Nim." Project Nim was led by Herbert Terrace, a psychologist at Columbia who was ...

Footage of a chimp scrolling through Instagram took the internet by storm. But it came as no surprise to primate experts who know how clever our closest relatives are. And it was certainly not the ...

But it came as no surprise to primate experts who know how clever our closest relatives are. And it was certainly not the first chimp to capture the public's imagination with incredible skills. In the ...

Humans are often thought to be the only animals capable of language. But it’s difficult to prove a negative like this because we’ll never definitively know the subjective interior monologues of other ...

Scientists have announced the death of the first animal to break the language barrier, a female chimpanzee called Washoe who could communicate 250 words in human sign language. Washoe was not only the ...

Chimpanzees in the wild use gestures that are not common to the group, showing they can develop their own sign language, Dutch researcher Bas van Boekholt has found. Van Boekholt, who is a PhD ...

Robert with Onan signing "hat". Source: Robert Ingersoll, with permission. I recently learned of a book by Robert Ingersoll and Antonina Anna Scarnà titled Primatology, Ethics, and Trauma: The ...

She spent her early years playing in the backyard of a small house in Reno, Nev., learning American Sign Language from the scientists who adopted her. By age 5, she had mastered enough signs to ...

HUMANS understand chimps’ sign language, scientists say. We still have ancient instincts that help us read hand gestures used by our ancestors before we evolved to speak. Apes including chimpanzees, ...

HUMANS understand chimps’ sign language, scientists say. We still have ancient instincts that help us read hand gestures used by our ancestors before we evolved to ...

What is the purpose served by the study of primates? Behaviour doesn’t fossilise. The behaviour of chimpanzees gives us clues to human behaviour in the early ages. It gives us a precious hint as to ...