Video: More about Uncanny Valley Syndrome from MOCH it. Rhesus macaques are a species of monkey often used in behavioral and neurophysiology research, but this research is hard to reproduce because ...

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 ability to mimic the facial expressions of others is thought to be linked to empathy. It's known that humans and orangutans "ape" each other in this way, but gelada monkeys appear to do it too, a ...

Humans do it. Chimps do it. Why shouldn't monkeys do it, too? Mimicry exists throughout the animal kingdom, but imitation with a purpose--matching one's behavior to others' as a form of social ...

The throat and facial movements that twist the air pushing through your vocal cords into words could be rooted in the well-meaning expressions primates exchange with each other, according to two ...

Researchers are a step closer to solving one of the greatest puzzles of evolution, after discovering that chimpanzees smack their lips in a rhythm like that of spoken language. Chimpanzee language ...

A study of our closest evolutionary relatives finds that the chimp behavior known as lip smacking occurs in the same timing range as human mouths during speech. Whether portrayed by Rex Harrison, ...