Project Nim was a research study conducted in the 1970s meant to find out if a chimpanzee could learn to sign. The study's chimp –- named Nim Chimpsky -– lived in a Manhattan brownstone with a ...

Project Nim was a research study conducted in the 1970s meant to find out if a chimpanzee could learn to sign. The study's chimp –- named Nim Chimpsky -– lived in a Manhattan brownstone with a ...

A chimpanzee whose ability to learn American Sign Language suggested but did not prove that the animal could engage in humanlike conversation died on Tuesday, The New York Times reported today ...

Whether they were learning language or not was irrelevant; those captive chimps could only tell us what captive chimps were understanding. Their existence went beyond language and words.

The ethologist R. Allen Gardner with his wife, Beatrix, and Washoe, the chimpanzee they taught to use sign language, in an image from the 1974 documentary “The First Signs of Washoe.” WBGH ...

She taught sign language to three younger chimps who remain at the institute, CWU spokeswoman Becky Watson said. They are Tatu, 31, Loulis, 29, and Dar, 31.

Research into chimpanzees finds that the primates combine calls to form numerous vocal sequences, indicating further step in understanding the sophisticated language of chimpanzees.

A new study finds that chimpanzee babies learn vocal and visual communication patterns from their mothers. The findings may shed light on the way human babies learn from those close to them.

Two new studies hint at the evolutionary roots of human language. The studies found that chimps use rhythmic structures and complex call combinations to communicate.

Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be essential for the evolution of complex and varied tool use, according to a study publishing May ...