Chimpanzee drumming shares the building blocks of human musicality
A study co-led by the University of St Andrews has shown that wild chimpanzees drum with rhythm, and that chimpanzee drumming shares some rhythmic properties with human music.
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Scientists find similarities between chimpanzee and human communication
Wild chimpanzees share humans’ snappy conversational style, a new study shows.
How elephants say hello
African elephants communicate in different ways depending on the social scenario, according to a new research collaboration.
Chimpanzees learn by looking
Chimps learn by watching each other, according to research from St Andrews and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Great ape gestures
Humans retain an understanding of gestures made by other great apes, according to a new study by St Andrews researchers.
Researchers discover chimpanzee communities have local gestural dialects
St Andrews researchers find chimpanzees use leaf gestures in different dialects to communicate with their group
All in the family
Researchers have shown that wild chimpanzees tend to look like their family members and some relationships are easier to detect.
Chimpanzees synchronise their steps just like humans
New research shows chimpanzees share a human tendency to unintentionally synchronise their steps when walking alongside one another.
Chimpanzee 'social media'
Scientists have shown that chimpanzees in Uganda’s Budongo Forest have their own signature style when drumming on trees.
Chimpanzee mothers may grieve loss of their young
New observations from the Budongo Forest in Uganda help us to understand why chimpanzee mothers carry their dead infants.