Kanzi was not the first great ape to learn how to communicate with humans using symbols. Koko the gorilla and Washoe the chimpanzee learned signs that were adapted from American Sign Language. But ...

Kanzi, the world’s most celebrated bonobo who learned to communicate and play Minecraft with humans, died last week in Iowa, U.S., at the age of 44. Ape Initiative, a research organization in ...

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, 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 ...

Kanzi the bonobo – who was able to communicate complex ideas using symbols – died suddenly on March 18 at the Ape Conservation and Cognition Initiative (ACCI) research center in Des Moines ...

Kanzi requests more frozen grapes. Des Moines’ Ape Initiative, as well as scientists and animal lovers around the world, are mourning the loss of Kanzi, the bonobo who became famous for his ...

Ever since his birth in 1980, Kanzi, a bonobo who lived in Des Moines, was part of a language research project. He understood spoken English, and he could communicate with more than 300 lexigrams.

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 participated in numerous scientific studies. This ...

NEWS BRIEF: Fremantle-owned factual prodco Wildstar Films is in production on a documentary telling the real-life story of famous ape Kanzi, who died last week. In a partnership with Kanzi’s home, Ape ...