Discover how bonobos challenge our understanding of language evolution, offering fresh insights into communication, ...

A peep from a bonobo is believed to mean roughly “I would like to…” and a whistle is believed to mean “let’s stay together.” But when combined to make a “peep-whistle,” it’s thought to mean something ...

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of humans. The study has investigated the vocal behavior of wild ...

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

Bonobos use a combination of calls to encourage peace with their partner during mating rituals, research suggests. The discovery is part of a study that suggests our close evolutionary cousins can ...

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 ...

Bonobos, great apes related to us and chimpanzees that live in the Republic of Congo, communicate with vocal calls including peeps, hoots, yelps, grunts, and whistles. Now, a team of Swiss ...

Amici said. But other researchers said that the study, which had been conducted on bonobos, close relatives of chimpanzees, had little to reveal about how we use words. “The present findings don ...

By extensively researching the vocal communication of bonobos in their natural habitat, the Kokolopori Community Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we found that vocal communication ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to ...

Bonobos, our closest relatives, may not speak, but they use something strikingly similar to human language. A new study from researchers at the University of Zurich and Harvard University reveals that ...