Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen
To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...
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Bonobos Communicate Like Humans, At Least When It Comes to Combining Calls
Learn more about complex compositionality, an ability to combine words and calls that humans and bonobos apparently share.
Saturday Citations: Leaky continental plates, talking monkeys and a spectacular Einstein ring
This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...
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Bonobos communicate using a universal principle of human languages
The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...
Bonobo apes aren’t just grunting at each other — in fact, their complex ‘language ...
A peep from a bonobo is believed to mean roughly “I would like to…” and a whistle is believed to mean “let’s stay together.” But when combined to make a “peep-whistle,” it’s thought to mean something ...
In the Calls of Bonobos, Scientists Hear Hints of Language
Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...
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Bonobos’ Complex Calls Share an Extraordinary Trait with Human Language
Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...
Bonobos create phrases in similar ways to humans, new study suggests
Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...
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There Might Be Something Human in the Way Bonobos Communicate—Their Calls Share a Key ...
Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their social context, then analyzed how the primates string ...
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Human Language Capacity Found in Bonobos, Our Closest Living Relatives
A new study finds bonobos combine sounds in complex ways, offering clues to the early roots of human language and how ...
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Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans
The way bonobos combine vocal sounds to create new meanings suggests the evolutionary building blocks of human language are ...
Peeps and yelps show bonobos communicate with added meaning, study says
Our primate cousins were recorded combining vocal sounds to communicate a different meaning than each sound used separately, scientists found.