Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans

> This finding doesn’t mean that bonobos have language, though, because language is the human communication system

I hate this attitude.

Also, I'm curious how advances in AI will shape our empathy towards animals.

I really wonder if that's a misquote or poor paraphrase. It's not in quotation marks.

> This finding doesn’t mean that bonobos have language, though, because language is the human communication system, says Berthet. “But we’re showing that they have a very complex communication system that shares parallels with human language.”

Peak anthropocentrism. You see this attitude all over, unfortunately even in circles that should know better. It even feels circular, like saying "Language is how we know people are more 'advanced' than animals, but animals can never have language, because language is what humans do."