In a series of tea party-like experiments, a bonobo was able to identify imaginary juice and grapes.

Learning & Behavior - Townrow and Krupenye (PNAS, 122(6), Article e2412450122, 2025) found that bonobos understand the mental states of others and can attribute ignorance to a social partner....

In humans and other social mammals, more socially connected females often have higher fitness. Yet evidence linking female sociality to offspring surv…

The use of tools to drink water is well-documented in wild chimpanzees, but the specific function of this behavior is unclear. Here we use a large data set of drinking behaviors spanning 14 years of ....

A key feature of language is our capacity to process syntactic relationships between words, whether they are directly sequential (‘adjacent dependencies’) or separated by other words (‘non-adjacent de...

1 Introduction The emergence of combinatoriality has been argued to represent one of the seven key evolutionary transitions in life (Maynard-Smith & Szathmary, 1995). Specifically, syntax – i.e., t...