Kanzi the bonobo died Tuesday afternoon. The 44-year-old showed no signs of illness or discomfort before being found ...

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

The Ape Initiative in Des Moines is the only bonobo research facility in the world. The only place you can find bonobos in the wild is The Republic of Congo, where there are estimated to be as few ...

Des Moines’ Ape Initiative, as well as scientists and animal lovers around the world, are mourning the loss of Kanzi, the ...

“Bonobos and chimpanzees both live in very complex social structures with very rich social interactions that they have to navigate on a daily basis,” says team member Zanna Clay, also at Durham ...

"An exciting next step would be to test the functions of sex further, in different contexts, and to see how much overlap we see between chimpanzee and bonobo sexuality in the wild." More ...

Dr. Patterson remarked, "Koko broke the stereotype of gorillas as merely wild animals, adding momentum to efforts for gorilla conservation." Interestingly, it is said that bonobo Kanzi learned ...

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