Bonobos, our closest relatives, may not speak, but they use something strikingly similar to human language. A new study from researchers at the University of Zurich and Harvard University reveals that ...

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

He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to communicate, but he was the first to do so with such fluency, subtlety and apparent ease that it prompted uncomfortable questions about the ...

Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...

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

Late King of Pop Michael Jackson's chimpanzee Bubbles has now turned 42, and is enjoying 'peaceful days lounging in the ...

It's nearly April, and while "Severance" season 2 might now be over, there's still new stuff to watch on Apple TV Plus in the ...

Kidnapped from his family as an infant, then raised by a drug lord before ending up in a Colombian zoo, Yoko the chimpanzee has lived the last two years of ...

The famous ape reportedly knew thousands of words, loved Clint Eastwood movies, and was a big fan of video games.

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...