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, ...

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.

Monkey business ensues in two new Chimp and Zee board books by Catherine and Laurence Anholt. Chimp and Zee's Noisy Book shows the pair copying sounds: ""Woof woof woof!"" and ""clap clap clap"" start ...

Professor Katie Slocombe on new research which shows social learning might be present in chimpanzees, able to learn new words for objects such as apple.