This is what it sounds like when apes laugh

Wanna hear primates laugh? It's infection, I guarantee it! Audio samples within.

Primatologist and psychologist Marina Davila Ross of the U.K.'s University of Portsmouth led a team that tickled the necks, feet, palms, and armpits of infant and juvenile apes as well as human babies. The team recorded more than 800 of the resulting giggles and guffaws.

Apes Laugh, Tickle Study Finds (Thanks, Marilyn!)

• [Exploto]

  Reminded me of http://www.theonion.com/content/video/study_multiple_stab_wounds_may_be , unfortunately.

• [wolfiesma]

  I accidently let slip a little snort while laughing at something stupid yesterday and Wolfie stops in his tracks, “You’re a pig, mom?” Hey, its better than this one times I was stepping into the tub and he says, “You’re a hippo, mom?” What are you gonna do? Laugh! HAHA!

• [Takuan]

  haha! then you hold his little head under for a while.

• [wolfiesma]

  watch it, buster

• [Takuan]

  just long enough to teach him some respect

• [arkizzle / Moderator]

  These clips are great! You know when some one says, “it’s a hoot, I guarantee it”? Well, I was sceptical. But the second that bonobo played, I lol’d for real, in that same way you do when someone else is dying of the giggles.. Brilliant! :)

• [Anonymous]

  sounds like the thing from eraserhead

• [arkizzle / Moderator]

  “Haha” @ (Wolfie + Wolfiesma) && “Haha” @ (Tak + Wolfiesma)

• [Takuan]

  I’m thinking of opening a day-care.

• [TeddyC]

  AUDIO LINKS IN STORY NOW WORKING!

• [wolfiesma]

  &Tak @14 Haha!

• [Takuan]

  aha..ahahhaha HAHAHAHAH!…..(snurk, wipe) yesss,
  something like a military academy for toddlers, only crueler.

• [apoxia]

  I want to know why the researchers got funding from for this project. I can just imagine the grant application…

• [Robert]

  So is Cory a fan of Prince? Is that article title an homage?

• [arkizzle / Moderator]

  “..something like a military academy for toddlers, only crueler.”

  Ah! That would be the Christain Brothers.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_of_Christian_Brothers

• [arkizzle / Moderator]

  Dman.. spelt Christian wrong.

• [arkizzle / Moderator]

  And damn.

  Dammit!

• [TroofSeeker]

  Have you ever laughed so hard you just doubled over, unable to speak, or function, or even breathe? Sure you have. What a bazaar nervous convulsion! What is that about? What other animal goes into convulsions of joy?
  It’s fun tho. We love it. Frickin’ bazaar creatures. No wonder the apes are laughing.

• [arkizzle / Moderator]

  Oh. Wait.

  I’m going to very quickly say that the joke about the Christain Brothers was not at all about their most recent scandels (which, frankly, aren’t very funny) but was about them running very harsh schools that weren’t nice places to be. Just that. Because they weren’t.

• [arkizzle / Moderator]

  Damn. I spelt Christian wrong again (and I’m not going to tell you how many typos I corrected in this comment).

• [umgrego2]

  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/images/thumbs/Chimp-Laughter.wma

  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/images/thumbs/Gorilla-Laughter.wma

  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/images/thumbs/Human-Laughter.wma

  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/images/thumbs/Orangutan-Laughter.wma

  sorry, just gronkin’ my way to try and download the audio files.

• [webmonkees]

  Makes you wonder just what the monkeys are ‘saying’ in those recordings you can activate near the cages.. and what do the live monkeys think one of their siblings is up to just out of view?

• [NidSquid]

  That was lovely. Nothing like the sound of laughter to make you smile.

  I’d love to have that job: Ape Tickler.

• [Tensegrity]

  .wma fail

• [Anonymous]

  … ApeLad, would you care to comment?!?

  Ah ha!!

  :P

• [Tom Hale]

  You’re not trying to multi task are you Arkizzle? Only women can do that.

• [Doomstalk]

  Much more pleasant than when doves cry.

• [tallpat]

  Tensegrity #2- looks like NG screwed up the links to the wma files… their specified location = http://192.168.2.240/news/images/thumbs/Bonobo-Laughter.wma instead of what it should be: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/images/thumbs/Bonobo-Laughter.wma

• [daemonsquire]

  Radio Lab had a segment about animal laughter, that included some chimp chuckles, in their Laughter episode last year.

• [Anonymous]

  Enter koala mating call into Youtube. Better.

• [gATO]

  It’s previously been argued that chimps chuckle, but their method —”laughing” on both the exhale and inhale— had been deemed too different from the human, exhale-only laugh.

  it’s obviously different from human laughter, but it does kinda sounds like when you snort while chuckling.