Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...

Bonobos form vocal combinations that reflect structured meaning, suggesting language-like traits evolved millions of years ago. Bonobos, our closest living relatives, produce intricate and meaningful ...

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

A bonobo emits a subtle peep before the whistle, to denote tensed social situations. (Here, the bonobo is performing a display in front of the other group members by dragging a branch.) ...

The bonobo Kanzi, who learned to make stone tools, play Minecraft and communicate at the level of a 2-year-old human, has ...

Image Tupac, a young male bonobo in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve. Researchers recorded hundreds of hours of bonobo calls and noted what had been happening just beforehand.Credit...Lukas Bierhoff ...

"Bonobo urine," he murmurs ... The alpha male's bellicose display was just the first of several signs I would see over the next ten days that not all is peace and love in Bonoboland.

Great Ape Trust of Iowa To better understand bonobo intelligence, I traveled to Des Moines, Iowa, to meet Kanzi, a 26-year-old male bonobo reputedly able to converse with humans. When Kanzi was an ...

Kanzi has died at the age of 44. The iconic bonobo reshaped our understanding of ape intelligence, challenging long-held beliefs about what separates humans from our closest living relatives.

Female chimps lead a life much more solitary than that their bonobo cousins, and are sometimes harassed by the much larger males. Sex is strictly about reproduction, and reproductive tactics can ...