Deep among Iowa’s rolling fields, bonobos—apes sharing nearly 99% of our DNA—tap out thoughts on screens, paint artwork and ...

Researchers utilized recently published telomere-to-telomere genomes of humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and two ...

Kanzi showed apes have the capacity for language, but in recent years scientists have questioned the ethics of ape experiments.

Researchers from The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has discovered that wild chimpanzees in the national ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

We now have full genome sequences for six species of apes, helping us to pin down our last common ancestor – and potentially ...

Chimpanzees can combine vocal calls to form new meanings. This suggests a primitive form of syntax, hinting at the roots of ...

Bonobos are often seen as gentle pacifists who defuse tensions through sex, while chimpanzees have a reputation for being angry and belligerent. But is this perception justified? To find out ...