In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises—but my rhythmic analyses reveal a different story. Those ...

"Climb on me", "climb on you" and "resume play" are among the requests wild orangutans make to each other, researchers say. In the first in-depth study of gestures among wild orangutans, University of ...

Researchers have discovered that orangutans possess vocal abilities similar to beatboxing, where they can produce two different sounds simultaneously. The study suggests that these vocal abilities in ...

Editor's Note: The original version of this story misstated the journal that Lameira's team's findings were published in; they were published in Nature Ecology ...

An adolescent orangutan called Rocky could hold the key to understanding how speech evolved in early humans. Rocky, who was eight at the time of the study, was able to copy the pitch and tone of vowel ...

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Orangutan calls have a complex structure that was thought to be unique to human language. Short sequences are nested inside longer sequences, much like the way we assemble long sentences from shorter ...

The ability to issue warnings is a common feature in animal communication. Alarm calls can warn group members about the presence of a predator, and can even provide information about the type of ...

In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises – but my rhythmic analyses reveal a different story.