How can one teach language to a chimpanzee who is unable to produce the basic sounds of spoken language (phonemes)? Extensive research has shown they can’t. Two approaches, each using a visual ...

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 ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Washoe, who had a vocabulary of 250 words, dies in Washington at age 72. Washoe is shown ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. Washoe, who first ...

SPOKANE, Wash. Washoe, a female chimpanzee believed to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. Washoe, who first ...

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 ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. Washoe, who first ...

Speaking in grunts Chimpanzees specifically refer to favourite foods with distinct grunts, but the calls differ between populations, according to a new study. The chimps could then learn the "foreign" ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Chimpanzees use their hands to say "follow me", "stop that" or "take this", according to new research seeking to translate the sophisticated messages flowing back and forth.

Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be essential for the evolution of complex and varied tool use, according to a new study. Chimpanzees ...