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

Bonobos form vocal combinations that reflect structured meaning, suggesting language-like traits evolved millions of years ago. Bonobos, our closest living relatives, produce intricate and meaningful ...

Wild Calls of Bonobo Apes Sound Simple, but Scientists Find Striking Similarities With Human Language The evolution of human ...

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

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

Kanzi, a world-famous bonobo who astonished researchers with his linguistic and tool-making abilities, has passed away at the ...

Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...

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 are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees ...

Floating Points, Kamasi Washington and Bonobo have released new soundtrack albums made for Adult Swim anime series Lazarus.