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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baby bonobo Previously thought to be an exclusively human skill, knowing when a friend could use a clue appears to be a talent we ...

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

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

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to change their behavior, a new study shows. Researchers from Johns Hopkins ...

Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos were more likely than chimpanzees to comfort others in distress. The study ...

Bonobos at the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo. What leads people to acts of violence and genocide? What triggers empathy and altruism? Duke evolutionary biologist Brian ...

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.

People are constantly looking at the behavior of others and coming up with ideas about what might be going on in their heads. Now, a new study of bonobos adds to evidence that they might do the same ...

Wild bonobos – our closest living relatives – communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key features of human language, according to a new ...

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 ...