Laughter is universal among humans. Researchers have found that our closest relatives, apes, also laugh, and do it with a ...

Apes together laugh. The post Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle ...

Until now, it had been unclear how our laughter may have changed over millions of years of evolution, and how it might relate ...

New research suggests humans and great apes share rhythmic patterns in laughter dating back millions of years. The finding ...

For decades, scientists have been studying the cognition of great apes to understand how our own complex cognitive abilities ...

Apes use signals to start and end interactions in much the same way that humans greet each other and say goodbye, a study suggests. This behaviour had not been observed outside the human species until ...

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 ...

A research team, including academics from the University of Warwick, has suggested that apes can understand the communicative goals behind each other's actions—a skill previously thought to be unique ...

Just like people, chimpanzees and bonobos aren't ones for leaving without saying goodbye. Apes purposefully use signals to begin and end social interactions -- behaviors not typically seen outside of ...