He also made and used stone tools, mimicking early human ancestors, and later turned his curiosity toward Pac-Man and Minecraft. Unlike his wild cousins in the Congo Basin, Kanzi’s rainforest was a ...

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

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

Hogle Zoo in Utah is offering visitors this spring to go into a bright world after dark for ZooLuminate. From March 28 ...

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

Our primate cousins were recorded combining vocal sounds to communicate a different meaning than each sound used separately, scientists found.

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

A Trump administration official said Thursday the United States is in talks with conflict-plagued Congo on developing its ...

A wedding meant to herald a fresh start has become emblematic of eastern Congo’s ongoing turmoil as rebel control leaves ...

The study challenges long-held assumptions about what makes human communication unique and suggests that key aspects of ...

Mar. 31, 2025 — Every night, bats emerge out of roosts in massive numbers, creating what scientists have called a 'cocktail party nightmare' of clashing echolocations. Nobody knew how bats ...