Goodall explained in the video that it was "magical… just how like us they are." She later points to the ways the chimps communicated without language: "Of course, they can't sp ...

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

Wild chimpanzees in Africa have been observed beating out rhythms on trees using their hands and feet. They drum on the large roots (‘buttresses’) that spread out from a tree's base, creating deep, ...

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It turns out that the chuckles of humans and great apes follow similar rhythms, with regular timing between their laughs, a ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a ...

British primatologist and environmental icon Jane Goodall has died of natural causes in California at the age of 91. She turned zoology on its head with her observations in Tanzania's Gombe National ...

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