Researchers set up a series of tea party-like experiments with Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo who had provided decades ...

Scientists tested a bonobo called Kanzi and found evidence he could understand pretend objects, suggesting imagination may ...

A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely linked, anatomically, to human ancestors than common ...

Amalia Bastos first met Kanzi the bonobo in 2023. Bastos was “starstruck,” she recalls: Kanzi was famous for learning how to communicate with humans using a keyboard of symbols. Upon first seeing ...