Nyota (bonobo)
Nyota, also known by the lexigram, is a bonobo. Nyota was born at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University. His mother was Panbanisha and his father was P-suke. With Panbanisha's death on November 6, 2012, Nyota became the sole surviving member of his immediate family.
Nyota's name means "Star" in Lingala, a language from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa.
Nyota was reared by Panbanisha and Kanzi with primatologists Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and William M. Fields.
As a precocious youngster in 2004, 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 25, 2005 he, his brother Nathan and mother Panbanisha moved to the Great Ape Trust in Iowa. His father, P-suke, uncle Kanzi, grandmother Matata, and other relatives were also moved to the Trust.
