Initiative announced on social media Wednesday that one of their bonobos has died. In a post on Facebook, the initiative said ...

What would it be like to converse with a bonobo? According to primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a lead scientist at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, these apes cannot only understand language ...

The bonobo’s head is smaller in proportion to its body ... Scientists today tend to avoid the term pygmy chimpanzee; “bonobo” better suggests that this creature is not a miniaturized version ...

They observed a range of behaviors: Genital touch, either by hand or foot; genito-genital contact, which saw two apes – most commonly female bonobos – engage in mutual genital rubbing ...

Some chimpanzees seem to use sexual behaviour like genital rubbing to manage stressful situations, which shows they aren’t as different from hypersexual bonobos – our other closest living ape ...

Bonobos are part of the ape family, alongside chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, humans and gibbons. Apes brains are more complex than monkeys, and are our closest animal relatives, sharing around ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN)-- Orangutans and bonobos in one of North America's leading ape research centers are spending time high in their habitats to escape Iowa floodwaters, officials said Monday.

We don't just have sex to reproduce—new research suggests that using sex to manage social tension could be a trait that existed in the common ancestor of humans and apes six million years ago.