Can we decode the language of our primate cousins?
A UNIGE team shows that the human brain is capable of identifying the vocalizations of certain primate species, if they are close to us and if the frequencies used are also close to our own.
A UNIGE team shows that the human brain is capable of identifying the vocalizations of certain primate species, if they are close to us and if the frequencies used are also close to our own.
Plants & Animals
Dec 19, 2023
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A study published in Science challenges the notion that only humans are capable of forming strong and strategic cooperative relationships and sharing resources across non-family groups.
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2023
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Endangered great apes get malaria, just like humans. New evidence from wild bonobos shows us the infection harms them, too.
Plants & Animals
Feb 23, 2023
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As humans, we share many characteristics with bonobos, who together with chimpanzees are the ape species that are most closely related to us. There are a lot of similarities in our social behavior, but also some remarkable ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2023
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Psychologists from Durham University, UK have found in their study that bonobos produce a variety of signals including "baby-like" signals to strategically display distress when they are attacked by other bonobos.
Plants & Animals
Aug 5, 2022
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New research led by the University of St Andrews reveals bonobo chimpanzee gestures change meaning according to the specific context in which they are used, in the same way humans communicate.
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2021
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There might be fewer bonobos left in the wild than we thought. For the last 40 years, scientists have estimated the abundance of endangered bonobos by counting the numbers of sleeping nests left by the apes in forests of ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2021
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Chimpanzees and bonobos diverged comparatively recently in great ape evolutionary history. They split into different species about 1.7 million years ago. Some of the distinctions between chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) and bonobo ...
Evolution
May 5, 2021
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Scientists have witnessed bonobo apes adopting infants who were born outside of their social group for the first time in the wild.
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2021
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Bonobos, when abruptly interrupted in a social activity with another bonobo, resume it as soon as the interruption is over with the same partner. This ability—the feeling of mutual obligation when interacting—has previously ...
Plants & Animals
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