Nyota
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Nyota (pronounced en-yota) (born 1998) is a Bonobo. Nyota was born at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University. His mother is Panbanisha and his father is P-suke. Nyota's name means "Star" in Lingala, a language from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa.[1]
As of 2004 a precocious youngster, Nyota is instrumental to researchers investigating the cross-generational effects of language and culture in a second-generation bonobo reared in a bi-cultural environment. On Monday, April 25th 2005 he, his brother Nathan and mother Panbanisha moved to the Great Ape Trust in Iowa. His father, P-suke (died July 7, 2006 in Iowa), uncle Kanzi, grandmother Matata, and other relatives have also been moved to the Trust.
