A linguistics professor at UNM, is helping shape the future of sign language research, using unique teaching methods that ...

A daycare in Bethlehem has a unique program, teaching kids sign language often before they have even learned to speak.

She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson ...

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK, Uganda (AP) — The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go — except up in the trees. Onesmas Ainebyona stalks the ...

Chimps may revise their beliefs in surprisingly human-like ways. Experiments showed they switched choices when presented with stronger clues, demonstrating flexible reasoning. Computational modeling ...

A chimpanzee escaped its enclosure on Friday morning at the Indianapolis Zoo, forcing a lockdown for visitors for about two hours before the team managed to sedate and return her to the exhibit. The ...

A chimpanzee escaped its enclosure and was on the loose at the Indianapolis Zoo Friday morning, but the animal was later located and returned to her exhibit, the zoo said. "At approximately 10am, a ...

Twenty-five years after the film's release, the chimps from "MVP" feel the lingering effects of a life in show business. Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Tim DiFrisco / Getty, Tom Pidgeon / Getty ...

Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to change their minds, research shows. When you purchase through links on our ...

People walk along Main Street at the Soda City Market just before the author started saying “Hey there!” on Oct. 18, 2025. Emerson Smith Jane Goodall, an English anthropologist specializing in living ...

Jane Goodall, an English anthropologist specializing in living with and studying chimpanzees and other great apes, passed away on Oct. 1 at the age of 91. She encouraged everyone to support the ...

Kayla Kolff received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), project number 274877981 (GRK-2185/1: DFG Research Training Group Situated Cognition). Animals respond to injury in many ways.