Bonobos Communication: Understanding Their Complex Vocalizations
May 6, 2025

Bonobos communication reveals a striking parallel to human language, highlighting the complexity of vocalizations among these primates.Recent research from the University of Zurich and Harvard shows that bonobos, our closest living relatives besides chimpanzees, utilize a sophisticated system of vocal expressions marked by compositionality, which is the ability to combine sounds into meaningful phrases.
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