For the first time, an orangutan has mimicked human speech, giving scientists a better understanding of where the ability to communicate comes from. Rocky the orangutan imitated sounds in experiments ...

This defies scientists’ former assumption that great apes just couldn’t learn new calls Erin Blakemore Correspondent She chatters. She clicks. She utters vowels and recognizable consonants. And ...

An orangutan has shown an ability to emulate human speech for the first time — a feat that gets us closer to understanding how human speech first evolved from the communications of ancestral great ...

This article was originally published on the International Business Times. An ape at the Indianapolis Zoo is giving scientists insight into how human speech may have evolved across time. Scientists ...

An orangutan named Rocky is helping scientists figure out when early humans might have uttered the first word. Rocky, who is 12 and lives at the Indianapolis Zoo, has shown that he can control his ...

An 11-year-old orangutan at the Indianapolis Zoo can mimic the pitch and tone of human sounds, his handlers report. The orangutan, Rocky, can make sounds that resemble the vowel "A" and sound like ah.

She chatters. She clicks. She utters vowels and recognizable consonants. And because Tilda, an orangutan, sounds so much like us, she could tell us a lot about the evolutionary link between great apes ...