Editor’s note: Read Mongabay’s story on Kanzi “Famous bonobo Kanzi, known for smarts & gaming, dies at age 44” by Kristine Sabillo.

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 ...

Kanzi, the famous bonobo at Des Moines' Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative, has died at the age of 44. He had been his normal, happy self, and was even playing in the towers the day he died ...