Scientific American18 小时
Bonobos’ Complex Calls Share an Extraordinary Trait with Human Language
Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...
Bonobos create phrases in similar ways to humans, new study suggests
Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...
New Scientist on MSN19 小时
Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans
The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are ...
Besides Humans, This Primate Has Developed Language Skills, Say Scientists
Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...
IFLScience20 小时
Scientists Listened To Bonobo Calls And Found Remarkable Similarities With Human Language
Bonobos are our closest living relatives along with chimpanzees, both sharing around 98.8 percent of their DNA with humans.
EL PAÍS English3 小时
Bonobos communicate using a universal principle of human languages
The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...
In the Calls of Bonobos, Scientists Hear Hints of Language
Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...
Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen
To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...
RIP Kanzi, the Bonobo Who Mastered Language and Minecraft
The famous ape reportedly knew thousands of words, loved Clint Eastwood movies, and was a big fan of video games.
IFLScience on MSN13 天
RIP Kanzi, The "Talking" Bonobo Who Understood Human Language
Kanzi the bonobo – who was able to communicate complex ideas using symbols – died suddenly on March 18 at the Ape ...