The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the first birthday of baby orangutan, Jambi, on Thursday, June 26, 2025. He was the first of his species to be born at the zoo in 15 years.

Child-directed speech, or “baby talk,” plays a crucial role in language development and is a near-universal human behavior.

An almost universal phenomenon in humans is the use of child-directed speech, where caregivers communicate with children, ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...

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The gift — by anonymous donors — will jump start construction on a giraffe barn, design for Expedition Indonesia.

Each evening, before turning in for the night, orangutans “make their beds,” building leafy nests of twigs and foliage to ...

Anybody who has ever struggled to get enough sleep knows just how much in life can interfere with our rest, and just how ...

History isn't written in stone—it's buried beneath it. If you thought we already knew everything about ancient India, recent ...

The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), a subspecies of the eastern gorilla, is an endangered species that only ...