Ape Initiative and Wildstar Films are preparing a documentary about Kanzi, the Bonobo primate, particularly focusing on his ...

The famous ape reportedly knew thousands of words, loved Clint Eastwood movies, and was a big fan of video games.

Understood English and adept at video games Kanzi, a male bonobo, was born on Oct. 28, 1980, at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, Georgia. From the age of five, he was raised ...

Kanzi, the world’s most celebrated bonobo who learned to communicate and play Minecraft with humans, died last week in Iowa, U.S., at the age of 44. Ape Initiative, a research organization in the city ...

In the USA, at the Ape Initiative conservation center, a male bonobo chimpanzee Kanzi died. He was 44 years old. He had ...

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Kanzi, an iconic Bonobo, who had ‘mastered the English language’, loved the video game Minecraft and had an adoration for ...

Des Moines’ Ape Initiative, as well as scientists and animal lovers around the world, are mourning the loss of Kanzi, the ...

There are many famous examples of animals who seem to understand human language. But is there any real science behind them?