Babies sometimes laugh and sometimes cry. It doesn’t take a genius to decode the meaning of these sounds. But it isn’t quite as straightforward to decipher the meaning, if any, of an infant’s babbles.

What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? New findings indicate that bonobos may exhibit larger ...

Wild bonobos – our closest living relatives – communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key features of human language, according to a new ...

It has been revealed that bonobos communicate using grammar similar to that of humans. Just as humans create sentences by linking words, bonobos convey meaning by chaining sounds with different ...

Des Moines, Iowa – August 27, 2008 – What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? The findings, ...

You're listening to WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Time now for your letters. First a correction from our July 1st show. In my essay that week, I spoke about a former military recruiter Raymond J.

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in captivity, Kanzi was the subject of many studies aimed at illuminating ape ...

A two-year-old baby Kanzi, who communicated with humans at an extraordinary level, created and used stone tools, and even learned to play video games, passed away at the age of 44 on the 18th (local ...