Introduction: primatological perspectives on language / Barbara J. King -- Viewed from up close: monkeys, apes, and language-origins theories / Barbara J. King -- Primate social organization, gestural ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A male chimpanzee may beg for food from another chimpanzee by gesturing with an extended arm and open hand. Under different circumstances, the same chimpanzee may use the same ...

Jacob Grimm, best known today as one of the Grimm Brothers of fairy tale fame, was in his own time a commanding figure in linguistics. In 1851, he addressed the Prussian Academy with a speech, “On the ...

It turns out you don’t have to be Jane Goodall to understand apes. Even untrained humans can decipher ape communication, including gestures related to grooming and sex, according to a new study ...

Marmosets can communicate with one another by name and know when they are being addressed, joining a very short list of species exhibiting such behavior, and a first for non-human primates, a new ...

The study of gestural communication in great apes has provided a rich insight into the evolutionary roots of human language. Apes typically employ an extensive repertoire of innate gestures that are ...

The brain does not merely recognize the human voice. A study from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that certain areas ...

From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create language. Now, it's been suggested that humans can also understand sign language used by ...

This report is the first installment of a monographic study of mammalian diversity and ethnomammalogy in a sparsely inhabited rainforest region between the Yavarí and Ucayali rivers in northeastern ...

From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create language. Now, it’s been suggested that humans can also understand sign language used by ...