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

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

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

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, ...

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

Bonobos are our closest living relatives along with chimpanzees, both sharing around 98.8 percent of their DNA with humans.

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

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Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience research and mental health treatment. Katy is Managing Editor at ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Scientists have uncovered ...