The chest-beating of mountain gorillas could be designed to indicate size and help in assessing the fighting ability of rivals, experts believe. Researchers found that audio frequencies of the ...

A mountain gorilla rises up and pounds its chest to signal for a mate or scare off a foe, but the drumming that resonates through the forest might also reveal details of their physique ...

Chest beats as an honest signal of body size in male mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei). Scientific Reports , 2021; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86261-8 Cite This Page : ...

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 ...

Previous research has shown that a gorilla's larger body size is linked to reproductive success and social rank. The chest-beating could be another way for the gorillas to convey their size to ...

The image of King Kong beating his chest might seem like the ultimate threat display. However, German scientists have discovered that gorillas thump their sternums to avoid — rather than ...

Since King Kong first appeared on the silver screen in 1933, the fictional giant ape has exposed audiences all over the world to a very real gorilla behavior—chest-beating. But it may surprise ...

In this video, a young gorilla named Kwanda is already hard at work practicing his chest pounding and it’s too cute. Kwanda ...

He asked radiologists to inspect CT chest scans for abnormalities called nodules, which could indicate lung cancer. Unknown to them, he had boldly superimposed a matchbox-sized image of a gorilla ...