It has been revealed that bonobos communicate using grammar similar to that of humans. Just as humans create sentences by linking words, bonobos convey meaning by chaining sounds with different ...

Mia, a young bonobo female from the Fekako community, vocalizing in response to distant group members.Image Credit: Martin Surbeck, Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project Humans are adept combiners. As it ...

A new study reveals that great apes can discern a partner's lack of knowledge, a cooperative skill once thought to be uniquely human. A bonobo participates in an experiment to obtain food through ...

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 ...

When humans feel a situation requiring cooperation is unfair, they may refuse to participate. It turns out that bonobos, one of our closest genetic relatives, also tend to recognize unfairness and ...

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 ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into sentences. This is thanks to compositionality : ...

Humans surprisingly share a significant portion of their DNA with diverse life forms, from chimpanzees (98.8%) and bonobos (98.7%) to gorillas (98.4%) and even bananas (60%). This genetic overlap ...

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A new study has shown that bonobos, the ape closest to humans, can teach their human partners the location of a snack that only they know. This seemingly simple study has been praised for ...