Ever wondered what it’s like to tickle an ape? Turns out, they bloody love it, and lose their minds laughing just like we do.

A study of 140 laughter sequences found the same rhythmic timing pattern in humans, chimps, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans.

Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international study led by researchers from Utrecht University and Universidad Carlos III de ...

All living great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans - laugh. But until now, it has been unclear how our ...

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

A laugh can feel spontaneous, messy, almost impossible to pin down. But deep inside that burst of sound, researchers found a ...

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.

It's been a puzzle why our two closest living primate relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, have widely different social traits, despite belonging to the same genus. Now, a comparative analysis of their ...

Nothing brings a group of primates together, humans included, quite like a threat from outside. Bonobos are unique among primates because they do not kill other bonobos, even during conflicts with ...

When people find out we study chimpanzees, they usually ask about their dark side. “You know chimpanzees kill each other, right?” or “Aren’t they the only animals besides humans that wage wars?” ...

Chimpanzees (often colloquially “chimps”) are African great apes in the genus Pan, which has two living species: the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and the bonobo (Pan paniscus). The common ...

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of ...