Humans are adept combiners. As it turns out, so, too, are bonobos. According to a new study in Science, bonobos can combine their calls a lot like humans can, indicating that a hallmark of human ...

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their social context, then analyzed how the primates string ...

(Image Credit: Martin Surbeck, Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project) Humans are adept combiners. As it turns out, so, too, are bonobos. According to a new study in Science, bonobos can combine their ...

This suggests that, like in human language, compositionality is a fundamental feature of bonobo communication. Furthermore, three of the call combinations bore a striking resemblance to the more ...

Bonobos form vocal combinations that reflect structured meaning, suggesting language-like traits evolved millions of years ...

The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are shared with our closest relatives ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

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 ...

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 ...