Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into sentences. This is thanks to compositionality: the ability to combine ...

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Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

Connecticut animal welfare organizations New Fairfield/Sherman Animal Welfare Society, Wells Valley Cat Rescue and New Fairfield Animal Control recently responded to an alleged hoarding case involving ...

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