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

Wild Calls of Bonobo Apes Sound Simple, but Scientists Find Striking Similarities With Human Language The evolution of human ...

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

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

The Sedgwick County Zoo is celebrating the arrival of a female chimpanzee born via scheduled cesarean section to 30-year-old ...

It follows other surprising findings of humanlike behavior in apes and monkeys, like the previous findings that uncovered the building blocks of human language in chimpanzee calls; strong ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility. Chimpanzees act as engineers when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide materials with more flexibility, a new ...

A chimpanzee has died just three weeks after being moved to a new zoo. Tombe, a 28-year-old male, was transported from Colchester Zoo to Belfast Zoo in March as part of a conservation programme.

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

Since Jane Goodall's groundbreaking discovery in 1960 that chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania use tools to fish termites out of their mounds, further research has found that ...