An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries. Few apes ...

Kanzi, a world-famous bonobo who astonished researchers with his linguistic and tool-making abilities, has passed away at the ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to communicate, ...

Des Moines’ Ape Initiative, as well as scientists and animal lovers around the world, are mourning the loss of Kanzi, the ...

To broaden the research, and speed it along, Dr. Townsend began collaborating with Martin Surbeck, a behavioral ecologist at Harvard who studies bonobos, a species of ape that split off from ...

Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees ...

In an exclusive partnership with Ape Initiative, Wildstar Films has begun production on Kanzi: The Ape That Could Talk, a ...

In the USA, at the Ape Initiative conservation center, a male bonobo chimpanzee Kanzi died. He was 44 years old. He had ...

Wildstar Films (a Fremantle company) is in production on a documentary telling the real-life story of the world’s most famous ...