We have changed from wanting animals to understand human language to wanting to understand how they communicate with each ...

Chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans all produce laughter, but scientists have long wondered how those vocalizations changed over millions of years and whether they could reveal anything ...

Great apes and humans all laugh with a steady, even rhythm, and a new study finds it has barely changed in 15 million years.

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

A group of Gabrielino/Tongva, Kumeyaay make their presentation during the Breath of Life Conference held on the UC Berkeley campus on Friday, June 5, 2026, in Berkeley. (Allison Herrera via Bay City ...

Exploring these differences formed the crux of a new study that documented laughing patterns between primates — a very ...

The study compared laughter from four orangutans, two gorillas, three bonobos, four chimpanzees, and four human children, ...

Simon Green has returned to the studio for new Bonobo album Distance in Static, the DJ/producer’s follow-up to 2022’s Fragments. Out September 11 via Ninja Tune, the record features vocal turns from ...

Bioacousticians are finding animal communication patterns once thought unique to humans — discoveries that challenge ideas about what makes human language special.

Bollywood stars are campaigning to end the use of elephants in Indian films, saying that life-size robot replicas and AI-generated images do the job without cruelty. Top directors, producers and ...