Don’t try this at home, but tickling a gorilla, orangutan, bonobo or chimp can inspire bursts of grunting sounds. Yes, that’s laughter, says Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth in ...

There's nothing quite like that yelp of laughter you emit when being tickled. Now, experts have confirmed that shrieks induced by tickling really do sound recognisably different to other types of ...

Keeper Phil Ridges explains how Emmie the gorilla responds to being tickled Thought it was just humans that are ticklish? Think again - scientists are studying how animals respond to being tickled in ...

Like human infants, young apes are known to hoot and holler when you tickle them. But is it fair to say that those playful calls are really laughter? The answer to that question is yes, according to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Rachel Feltman and Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post Dear Science: Why do we only laugh when someone else tickles us? Why can’t I tickle myself? Your ...

For a lot of people it does. However, researchers have now found that the way we laugh from being tickled is 'uniquely different' from other types of laughter - like the laughter after hearing a joke.

Thought it was just humans that are ticklish? Think again - scientists are studying how animals respond to being tickled in a bid to shed light on how laughter evolved. Tickling a gorilla is not for ...