The study focused on Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo who died in March 2025 at the age of 44. Ape Initiative.

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A bonobo demonstrated the ability to track imaginary objects in controlled tests, challenging the belief that imagination is uniquely human and hinting at deep evolutionary roots. In a set of ...

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Bonobos and chimps are our closest living links to the six million-year-old ancestor from which both they and we descended. As primatologist Frans de Waal points out, Kano's work "was a major ...

Doctoral student Aleksey Maro and his adviser Professor Robert Dudley, from the University of California, Berkeley, documented last year that the fruits chimps eat in the wild contain enough alcohol ...