Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some scholars are skeptical. By Carl Zimmer After listening to hundreds of hours ...

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 ...

World Bonobo Day reminds us that one of our closest relatives lives by cooperation, not conflict, and now faces serious ...

Most of us spend the day tossing out words without thinking about how they fit together. We text, we talk, we grumble in traffic. Every sentence quietly combines pieces of meaning. Now, scientists ...

It's been almost three years since the release of Bonobo's masterful, mould-breaking 'Black Sands'. Now, in 2013, he stands ready to take things up yet another notch. 'The North Borders' is a long ...