A new study from Indiana University discovered that bonobos, humans’ closest living relatives, make similar vocalizations ...

Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

Humans are equally related to chimpanzees and bonobos, and the new research doesn’t tell us whether early human ancestors were more like chimps with their universally rigid territories and ...

In a nutshell Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times ...

Humans are adept combiners. As it turns out, so, too, are bonobos. According to a new study in Science, bonobos can combine their calls a lot like humans can, indicating that a hallmark of human ...

The bonobos were cooperating with a human, something that never occurs in the wild (the animals are pretty unlikely to ever come across food hidden under plastic cups, for that matter).

Bonobos from different social groups will groom each other and share food. Martin Surbeck / Harvard University. Like humans, some bonobos cooperate with members of other social groups, even when ...

While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably ...

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language. Skip to main content. Scientific American. April 3, 2025. 5 min read.

The peeps, hoots and grunts of wild bonobos, a species of great ape living in the African rainforest, can convey complex thoughts in a way that mirrors some elements of human language, a new study ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction. Skip to main content. Scientific American. February 3, 2025. 3 min read.

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for ...