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

Kanzi, a world-famous bonobo who astonished researchers with his linguistic and tool-making abilities, has passed away at the ...

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

Ape Initiative and Wildstar Films are preparing a documentary about Kanzi, the Bonobo primate, particularly focusing on his contributions to research.

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, ...

Des Moines’ Ape Initiative, as well as scientists and animal lovers around the world, are mourning the loss of Kanzi, the ...

The bonobo Kanzi, who learned to make stone tools, play Minecraft and communicate at the level of a 2-year-old human, has died. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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, but he was the first to do so with such fluency ...

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 ...

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.