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

The peeps, hoots and grunts of wild bonobos, a species of great ape living in the African rainforest, can convey complex ...

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

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

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

Language is not neutral; words carry meanings and possess different communicative implications. Consequently, every conflict entails a struggle over the terms used or their content. The intrinsic ...

Wild bonobos – our closest living relatives – communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key ...

Wild bonobos – our closest living relatives – communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key features of human language, according to a new ...

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of humans.

Specifically, we define Environmental Embodied AI as an intelligent virtual agent capable of real-time perception, learning, ...

Just like any other form of communication, people can use emoji ... In one 2019 case, these kinds of hidden meanings were critical in securing a conviction in a sex-trafficking case.

Amit Kalley, the founder of the organization For Working Parents, has issued an urgent warning to parents about the secret meanings of smartphone emojis that could be used by children to convey ...