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

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries. Few apes ...

Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate ... In one famous episode, startled by a beaver, he combined “water” and “gorilla” to ...

Kanzi, a Des Moines resident bonobo known internationally for his communication skills, died Tuesday, most likely of heart disease, the Des Moines-based Ape Initiative reported. Iowa State University ...

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

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Bonobo enlisted the singer Jacob Lusk on vocals for the dreamy “Dark Will Fall,” while the Floating Points track “Dexion” is wordless and dancey. Listen to all three songs and see all ...

Visitors at Edinburgh Zoo can now see silverback gorillas in their natural habitat thanks to a new virtual reality experience launched by the wildlife charity. Did you know with a Digital ...