Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are among the closest relatives of humans. They share more than 98% of our DNA. Yet, these primates ...

Nothing brings a group of primates together, humans included, quite like a threat from outside. Bonobos are unique among ...

Great apes share human-like social circles, but chimpanzees and bonobos differ in how selectively they maintain close social ...

Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do.

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely linked, anatomically, to human ancestors than common chimpanzees.

Bonobos – our closest living relatives – create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of humans. This study, conducted by researchers at the University of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Few apes have done more to unsettle human certainties than Kanzi the bonobo. He wasn’t the first nonhuman primate to use symbols to communicate, ...

Juvenile bonobo embraces a distressed companion during post-conflict consolation. Psychologists from Durham University, UK, observed the behaviour of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are two closely related species of great apes and share much of their DNA with humans. Though they appear similar, they differ significantly in behavior, social structure, and ...