Although the chest-beating of male gorillas is a common behavior, its purpose still isn't entirely understood. Now, however, scientists believe it may serve as a means of acoustically indicating the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some behaviors are instinctive and others have to be learned. This is as true for people as it is for the other members of the ...

Gorillas usually stand bipedally and rapidly beat their chests with cupped hands in rapid succession. Chest beating is a unique sound because is it not a vocalization, like frogs croaking, but rather ...

April 8 (UPI) --To calculate the size of a live gorilla, scientists must rely on an advanced imaging technique called photogrammetry. But when gorillas size each other up, they just listen. New ...

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Chest beating by mountain gorillas - rapidly beating their chests with their hands to produce a drumming sound - may convey information about their body size and allow identification of individuals, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The video was captured by private safari tour guide Richard De Gouveia, who writes that a passing storm with torrential downpours ...

This adorable baby gorilla wanted to prove that just because he was small, it didn't mean people shouldn't be afraid of him. So, to prove his strength, he stood up to beat his chest in a display of ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Aug. 17 (UPI) --A New Zealand man who describes himself as a "wizard" has been banned by a zoo for chanting and beating his chest at gorillas. The Orana Wildlife Park in ...

Some behaviors are instinctive and others have to be learned. This is as true for people as it is for the other members of the animal kingdom. Perhaps you, like me, may have thought until this moment ...

The gorilla chest beat is one of the most emblematic sounds in the animal kingdom. However, until recently it was unclear what information gorillas were conveying when they gave these impressive ...