Chimpanzees and bonobos maintain tight inner circles of preferred grooming partners inside their wider social networks, ...

A Woman Has Been Raising Baby Bonobos for 24 Years in the Only Sanctuary of Its Kind ...

Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that ...

A database of great ape research promises to unlock deeper understanding of their cognition, intelligence and social ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bonobos can keep track of individuals, even when they can no longer see them. A new study has found the great apes can follow the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The great apes are the closest living relatives to humans. We share over ninety-eight percent of our DNA with some species of ...

A series of hide-and-seek experiments with a bonobo named Kanzi shows for the first time that apes can mentally keep track of multiple familiar humans at once, even when they are out of sight. Kanzi ...

Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, can tell when a human doesn’t know something and steps in to help — a cognitive ability never before identified in nonhuman apes, a study found.

NEW YORK (AP) — Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study finds. Along with chimpanzees, bonobos are among humans’ closest relatives. Scientists ...

Apes orphaned by the illegal trade in bushmeat and pets can overcome trauma and develop social abilities like those of their mother-reared peers. A new study led by Durham University, UK, looked at ...

A sanctuary on the outskirts of Congo's capital of Kinshasa is the world’s only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos, usually rescued from poachers. Despite legal protections, bonobos are targeted ...