Roaming the dense jungles of South-East Asia, one might hear a distant call faintly resembling a beatboxer, but rather than emanating from a human, it might just be coming from an orangutan. The great ...

Orangutans can make two separate sounds simultaneously, much like songbirds or human beatboxers, according to a new study. Orangutans can make two separate sounds simultaneously, much like songbirds ...

Researchers have discovered that orangutans possess vocal abilities similar to beatboxing, where they can produce two different sounds simultaneously. The study suggests that these vocal abilities in ...

Our red-headed primate cousins, the orangutans, might be more similar to us vocally than we first thought. According to a paper published in the journal PNAS Nexus on June 27, orangutans have been ...

We listen to orangutan sounds that surprised scientists and give the latest version of Google Translate a try. Orangutan Speaks? Google Translates! [Youtube] There’s news this week about an orangutan ...

Male Bornean Orangutan - Big Cheeks. Image by Eric Kilby from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Male Bornean Orangutan - Big Cheeks. Image by Eric Kilby from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, ...

We’re not sure if this is taking technology too far or if this is just plain genius. In Waco, Texas, at the Cameron Park Zoo, Microsoft’s Skype messaging and video calling service is being used by ...

At first glance, a video of an orangutan imitating a trainer’s grunts may not seem incredibly significant. But primate researchers say Rocky, the 11-year-old orangutan in the video, could ...

Orangutans can make two separate sounds simultaneously, much like songbirds or human beatboxers, according to a study led by the University of Warwick. Academics say the findings provide clues around ...

There’s news this week about an orangutan that’s doing something very unusual: she is making noises that sound like human noises. Human speech patterns have been heard in monkeys before, but not in ...