Learn more about complex compositionality, an ability to combine words and calls that humans and bonobos apparently share.

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

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

Human language is probably not as unique as it is thought to be. Scientists at the University of Zurich (UZH) have shown that bonobos combine their c ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...

Our primate cousins were recorded combining vocal sounds to communicate a different meaning than each sound used separately, scientists found.

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

Unlike his wild cousins in the Congo Basin, Kanzi’s rainforest was a research center ... He was no mirror of humanity — bonobos are their own species, with their own minds — but his life narrowed the ...

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

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

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