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

Visualizations of the semantic structure information in backbone stages. Pixels of the same class as the marked pixel are brightly colored. The brighter the color, the higher the similarity.

Wild bonobos – our closest living relatives – communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key features of human language, according to a new ...