Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the U.S. research institute where she was kept. Washoe was said by her keepers to ...

Goodall addressed the Washington State Legislature In April of 1989, urging funding of a new home for Washoe and four other ...

Researchers have found apes communicate more effectively and flexibly using gestures than they do with facial expressions and sounds, findings that may shed light on how human language developed.

Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) confirmed in a statement on Wednesday (Oct. 1). Goodall died of natural causes in ...