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.

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

Until now, it had been unclear how our laughter may have changed over millions of years of evolution, and how it might relate ...

Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests. How ...

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

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

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 ...

A lot of human society requires what’s called a “theory of mind”—the ability to infer the mental state of another person and adjust our actions based on what we expect they know and are thinking. We ...

A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely linked, anatomically, to human ancestors than common chimpanzees.

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