Imagine looking into the eyes of a chimpanzee and seeing a flicker of something deeply familiar—a spark that hints at a ...

P rimates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

This is thought to give monkeys, which are social creatures, a more complex way of communicating with each other. All other primates, and even ancient human ancestors, appear to have this special ...

Yodellers of the world, you never stood a chance: monkeys will always be better at yodelling than humans because they have a “cheap trick” hidden in their voice box, scientists revealed this week.

Scientists have shown that bonobos combine their calls into complex sound sequences that resemble combinations of human words ...

When monkeys howl -- or yodellers yodel -- they rapidly switch back and forth between low and high frequency sounds. This is in contrast to opera singers, who are trained to precisely control how ...

Yodelling monkeys can produce far greater frequency jumps than humans due to special structures in their throats, research suggests. Scientists investigated the “abrupt frequency jumps” in ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Yodelling monkeys can produce far greater frequency jumps than humans due to special structures in their throats, research suggests.