Koko the Gorilla and Robin Williams Koko, the gorilla known for using sign language, formed a touching connection with actor Robin Williams when they met in 2001. Their playful interaction became ...

Jenni Yang, who interpreted "KPop Demon Hunters" for Netflix, and Jojo Savea, who interpreted "Moana" for Disney+, recently ...

From hugs and handshakes to high fives and fist bumps, humans routinely use physical touch to comfort one another and ...

Many Native American languages are endangered. With the help of his mentor, a 12-year-old in Michigan hopes to help preserve ...

A loggerhead shrike does not eat every grasshopper it catches. Some are too toxic. Instead, the bird skewers them on thorns or barbed wire and waits, sometimes for two days, before returning to the ...

Humans are not the only animals that communicate. Birds sing to attract mates, dolphins use signature whistles that identify ...

Hugging before stressful events may be an ancient way of building trust, say scientists studying apes.

Physical touch may be an important evolutionary tool to help manage social tension and keep the peace. That is according to a ...

Hello colleagues! It’s the second week of break, and we hope you’re sliding into summer mode at the cabin, couch or campsite for some much-deserve ...

Videos have shown him telling a Black man he deserves to be lynched, repeatedly referring to a Black gubernatorial candidate as a “slave,” and most recently, he’s put out a statement referring to the ...

We have changed from wanting animals to understand human language to wanting to understand how they communicate with each ...

This story originally published in the August 1963 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Up on the mountains the midday sun glared fiercely, but ...