A world-famous bonobo chimp known for his skill at sign-language has taken one step closer to humanity - by learning to create tools. The 31-year-old, Kanzi, is able to understand and communicate with ...

Two bonobo chimpanzees in Iowa are changing how scientists think about the nature of human language. Kanzi and Panbanisha understand thousands of words. They use sentences, talk on the phone, and they ...

Kanzi the Bonobo, who learned language and made stone tools, dies at age 44 Kanzi was not the first great ape to learn how to communicate with humans using symbols. Koko the gorilla and Washoe the ...

Kanzi the bonobo continues to impress. Not content with learning sign language or making up “words” for things like banana or juice, he now seems capable of making stone tools on a par with the ...

The apes Koko, Kanzi and Panbanisha are famous for their language abilities. Commentator and anthropologist Barbara J. King considers whether... Koko, Kanzi and Panbanisha are about as famous as three ...

A bonobo has surprised his trainers by appearing to make up his own “words”. It is the first report of an ape making sounds that seem to hold their meaning across different situations, and the latest ...

Koko, Kanzi and Panbanisha are about as famous as three apes can get. Born in 1980 and 1985 respectively, Kanzi and his half-sister Panbanisha became primate mega-stars when these bonobos picked up ...