I had heard Traverse City was a great place before, but it takes sitting face to face sometimes ... Leelanau Cheese near Suttons Bay, Bonobo Winery on Old Mission Peninsula and the Village at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kanzi was not the first great ape to learn how to communicate with humans using symbols. Koko the gorilla and Washoe the chimpanzee learned signs that were adapted from American Sign Language. But ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

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 ...

Image Tupac, a young male bonobo in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve. Researchers recorded hundreds of hours of bonobo calls and noted what had been happening just beforehand.Credit...Lukas Bierhoff ...

Self-described “contrarian” John McWhorter is used to being at the center of controversy. So it’s no surprise his new book, ...

Sitting for long periods has never been hailed as healthy, yet many people have relied on their workouts to counter the negative effects of being on their tush all day. However, recent research ...