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 ...

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, our evolutionary cousins in the primate family, may be able to use vocal sounds to communicate meaning in a way that had previously only been observed in humans, according to a study ...

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 ...

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

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

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

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.

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 ...