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Did you know that bonobos actually use sex as a tool for conflict resolution? These peaceful creatures are less aggressive ...
Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, appear to string together vocal calls in ways that mirror a key feature of the human language, a new study carried out in the forests of the Democratic ...
Bonobos combine their calls in a complex way that forms distinct phrases, a sign that this type of syntax is more evolutionarily ancient than previously thought. Human language, often described as the ...
Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...
Bonobos – our closest living relatives – create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of humans. This study, conducted by researchers at the University of ...
Kanzi requests more frozen grapes. Des Moines’ Ape Initiative, as well as scientists and animal lovers around the world, are mourning the loss of Kanzi, the bonobo who became famous for his ...
Researchers have successfully adapted a standardized system for analyzing facial expressions to include bonobos, our closest living relatives alongside chimpanzees. The study, led by an international ...
An essay published in Live Science by Laura Geggel called "Chimps use 'hi' and 'bye' greetings, just like humans" caught my eye because of my interest in the different ways in which nonhuman animals ...
"Compositionality, in a nutshell: It's the fact that we can combine meaningful units into larger structures whose meaning is derived from the meaning of the units," Mélissa Berthet, a researcher in ...
Read full article: How high school students at San Antonio’s largest districts performed in this year’s STAAR tests Frost Bank Center and the proposed Spurs arena downtown. 32 minutes ago Bexar County ...