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

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to communicate, ...

Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...

What would it be like to converse with a bonobo? According to primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a lead scientist at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, these apes cannot only understand language ...

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

Both the apes and their planet feel very real ... legacy as an icon and a messiah figure inspiring both the tyrannical bonobo villain (Kevin Durand) and a gentle orangutan (Peter Macon) living ...

Bonobos are the least aggressive of the apes and physical violence almost never ... Radio 4 Natural Histories, BBC One Monkey Planet, BBC Earth, Dawn to Dusk, Animals in Love and BBC News.

The orangutan habitat is 30 feet high, and the bonobo one is 25 feet high, according to the trust's Web site. "Today, we are just trying to finish cleaning out the living areas to give the apes ...

“A favorite among his bonobo family members, Kanzi was a friend to everyone.” Kanzi is truly a legend among great apes—a group that includes chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine ... Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and ...