Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

A baby bonobo was born May 30 at the Milwaukee County Zoo, the zoo announced in a news release. Now, it’s ready for visitors.

Baby chimpanzees are some of the cutest babies in the animal kingdom. Newborns are only around 4 pounds at birth, which is ...

An almost universal phenomenon in humans is the use of child-directed speech, where caregivers communicate with children, ...

A chimpanzee at BIOPARC Valencia, a zoo park in Valencia, Spain, has been carrying the body of her dead child for three months. The baby ape died two weeks after their birth in February 2024.

Baby chimps are called infants, not surprising since scientists have found that chimps share 98.8% of their DNA with human babies. Had Natalia's baby lived, she would have clung to her mother for ...

Chimpanzee moms are like us: They mourn, dote, and take 'me' time. New research is revealing more about chimp motherhood, vital knowledge that can help conserve the endangered species. A baby ...

But you don’t need to be a scientist to recognize how similar these animals are to humans. All you need to do is watch this video of a baby Bonobo finding her best angles and smiling for the camera.

Talking to babies in a high-pitched voice and using exaggerated pronunciation seems natural to most parents. This way of ...

CREDIT: Liran Samuni/Taï Chimpanzee Project. The researchers found that wild chimpanzee infants develop different types of attachment to their mothers the way that human children do.

An angry mob have ransacked a zoo after a famous local chimpanzee ripped a baby from a mum's arms and killed her. The child's distraught mother, Seny Zogba, claims she was working in a field of ...