Chirps, trills, growls, howls, squawks. Animals converse in all kinds of ways, yet humankind has only scratched the surface of how they communicate with each other and the rest of the living world. Our species has trained some animals—and if you ask cats, animals have trained us, too—but we’ve yet to truly crack the code […]
RIP Kanzi, the Bonobo Who Mastered Language and Minecraft
Kanzi has died at the age of 44. The iconic bonobo reshaped our understanding of ape intelligence, challenging long-held beliefs about what separates humans from our closest living relatives. Kanzi passed away in Des Moines, Iowa, on March 18 at the age of 44, according to the Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative, a research group […]