Some male chimpanzees use covert physical gestures to sneakily solicit sex. According to a new study, these mating moves vary ...

A rare and deliberate signal between a mother chimpanzee and her daughter raises new questions about ape communication, ...

Male chimpanzees use specific mating request gestures. Researchers stunned to discover cause of change in chimpanzee mating behavior: 'Rarely been demonstrated before' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Travel across a country and you’ll come across a vast array of dialects in humans – but what about one of our closest-living relatives, chimpanzees? A new study appears to show that they too ...

"Between 2013 and 2024, we found differences in the frequency of use of these communicative gestures between neighboring chimpanzee communities, but also between populations across Africa." ...

When a male chimpanzee wants to hit on a female without ... To avoid the alpha's wrath, Crockford says males use covert physical gestures — which she calls "the sneakies" — to solicit sex.