Great apes – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans – all emit play calls that acoustically resemble human chuckles.

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A bonobo named Louise, born into captivity at the San Diego Zoo, lived with her sister, Loretta, and nephew, Erin, before being transferred to the Japan’s Kumamoto Sanctuary in 1992.. In the ...

Bonobo facial expressions reveal complex communication; new system maps 28 moves from distinct muscle actions.

A groundbreaking study has successfully adapted the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) for bonobos, providing new insights into primate communication and emotional expression. Researchers from ...

Kanzi, a male bonobo with advanced language aptitude, has died at the age of 44 according to a statement by the Ape Initiative, the conservation and research center in Des Moines, Iowa, where he ...

Bonobos, our evolutionary cousins in the primate family, may be able to use vocal sounds to communicate meaning in a way that had previously only been observed in humans, according to a study ...

He's determined, smart and outgoing; you can find him playing on the computer, watching an action movie or chomping on a celery stick in the greenhouse: He's Kanzi, the bonobo who plays Minecraft ...

A bonobo in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In a study based on observations in the wild, scientists were surprised to find that bonobos acted aggressively.

Famously, Kanzi was also a gamer. I first learned of Kanzi in 2006 when I spotted a bootlegged NHK Youtube video showing a bonobo playing Pac-Man with both proficiency and delight. I corresponded ...