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

The famous ape reportedly knew thousands of words, loved Clint Eastwood movies, and was a big fan of video games.

Kanzi, the world’s most celebrated bonobo who learned to communicate and play Minecraft ... I was Fangirl nervous and asked how I should greet him – with a pant grunt like in chimps? No, I was told.

In the USA, at the Ape Initiative conservation center, a male bonobo chimpanzee Kanzi died. He was 44 years old. He had unique language abilities and ...

Kanzi, a male bonobo with advanced language aptitude ... Primatologists have used lexigrams since the 1970s to understand how chimpanzees and bonobos think and communicate. Using a special lexigram ...

The bonobo is a type of ape that shares 98.7% of its DNA ... humans – not other primates like gorillas or orangutans – are ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to communicate, ...

Kanzi, the famous bonobo at Des Moines' Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative, has died at the age of 44. He had been his normal, happy self, and was even playing in the towers the day he died ...