Unlike other apes, bonobos are not known to kill each other. Bonobos’ historic range extends over more than 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles) ...

Bonobos: The Peaceful Apes Here's what we can learn from our dark, hairy ... Ph.D., is the head of the DogStudies Lab at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, ...

Despite their peaceful reputation, bonobos act aggressively more often than their chimpanzee cousins, a new study found. By Carl Zimmer In the early 1900s, primatologists noticed a group of apes ...

When Jane Goodall went to Gombe in Tanzania in the 1960s to study wild chimpanzees, she made a number of discoveries that changed our picture of our closest living relatives. She discovered that ...

A bonobo renowned for communicating with humans has died at a struggling Iowa sanctuary, and some of the remaining six great apes are also sick, TheDes Moines Register reports.. Panbanisha, 26 ...

A study led by Durham University, UK, looked at the effects of rehabilitation by the world's only bonobo sanctuary on the social and emotional development of orphaned bonobo apes across a 10-year ...

Humans are closely related to bonobos and chimpanzees, but it’s not always easy for us to tell the difference between the other great apes. Here are a few clues.

Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby ...

Bonobo Apes Express Empathy and Willingly Help Strangers. Another Heart-Warming Way Apes Beat Us at Being Human. New research shows that free-loving bonobos are unselfishly kind to strangers.

Females reign supreme in bonobo society by working together to keep males in their place. By Annie Roth Male domination is the natural order of things, some people say. But bonobos, primates with ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The Ape Cognition & Conservation (Ape) Initiative announced on social media Wednesday that one of their bonobos has died. In a post on Facebook, the initiative said that Kanzi ...