Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their social context, then analyzed how the primates string ...

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

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

The peeps, hoots and grunts of wild bonobos, a species of great ape living in the African rainforest, can convey complex ...

A new study finds bonobos combine sounds in complex ways, offering clues to the early roots of human language and how ...

The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are ...

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

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

The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...

The study challenges long-held assumptions about what makes human communication unique and suggests that key aspects of ...