Study with groups of bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas shows that they share the capacity for mockery with humans. Like humans, great apes are ticklish, laugh and play, and now it is confirmed that they also gossip.

Researchers recorded about 500 non-violent social interactions and, of them, about 140 were classified as jokes, mockery or ridicule. By species, the most hesitant seem to be chimpanzees (with 84 events), followed by orangUTans and bonobos and, further away, gorillas.