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

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

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 ...

Learn more about complex compositionality, an ability to combine words and calls that humans and bonobos apparently share.

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

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

To broaden the research, and speed it along, Dr. Townsend began collaborating with Martin Surbeck, a behavioral ecologist at Harvard who studies bonobos, a species of ape that split off from ...

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

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 ...

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

Differences among the DNA of seven ape species—including humans—are greater than originally thought, according to an ...