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 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 ...

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’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language. Skip to main content. Scientific American. April 3, 2025. 5 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 ...

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.

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

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to change their behavior, a new study shows. CNN values your feedback 1.

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

Many scientists see evidence of language in the sounds animals put together, but they may be kidding themselves.