The lip-smacking vocalizations gelada monkeys make are surprisingly similar to human speech, a new study finds. Many non-human primates demonstrate lip-smacking behavior, but geladas are the only ones ...

The lip-smacking vocalizations gelada monkeys make are surprisingly similar to human speech, a new study finds. Many nonhuman primates demonstrate lip-smacking behavior, but geladas are the only ones ...

The sounds of marmoset monkeys chattering may hint at the mysterious origins of human language. A new study shows that marmosets exchange calls in a precisely timed, back-and-forth fashion typical of ...

The lip-smacking vocalizations gelada monkeys make are surprisingly similar to human speech, a new study finds. Many nonhuman primates demonstrate lip-smacking behavior, but geladas are the only ones ...

Are monkeys talking behind our backs? That creepy “Planet of the Apes” sensation struck University of Michigan researcher Thore Bergman when he heard the lip-smacking sounds of wild geladas, a ...

When polite people talk, they take turns speaking and adjust the timing of their responses on the fly. So do wild macaques, a team of Japanese ethologists reports. It’s unclear whether the monkeys ...

Humans are not the only ones who can get pulled into spending a lot of time staring at a screen. In a recent study, common marmosets, small South American monkeys, learned to tap videos on a ...