Bonobos, great apes related to us and chimpanzees that live in the Republic of Congo, communicate with vocal calls including peeps, hoots, yelps, grunts, and whistles. Now, a team of Swiss scientists ...
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Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into sentences. This is thanks to compositionality: the ability to combine ...
WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Bonobos for years have had the reputation of being the cool hippies of the simian world, with a "make love, not war" ethos, in contrast to their belligerent cousins, ...
A BONOBO has surprised his trainers by appearing to make up his own “words”. It’s the first report of an ape making sounds that seem to hold their meaning across different situations, and the latest ...
Chimpanzees and bonobos maintain tight inner circles of preferred grooming partners inside their wider social networks, mirroring the layered friendship structures that scientists long assumed were ...