Recognising that someone lacks information you possess is key for effective communication and cooperation, and bonobos seem ...

Bonobos aren’t as mellow as scientists long suspected, new research finds, challenging previously held ideas about the ...

It’s not a stretch to think that bonobos and humans are closely related, according to a team of researchers who studied the animal’s muscle structures. Bernard Wood, a professor of human origins, and ...

In a groundbreaking study published journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have discovered that humans can perceive a greater range of blue tones than monkeys.

Bonobos are mainly herbivores but do occasionally hunt and eat small mammals. This mongoose pup was eventually released unharmed, but it might have been taken when its mother was killed. Similar ...

What would it be like to converse with a bonobo? According to primatologist ... but some of them can convey their thoughts and feelings to humans and to each other by pointing to any of hundreds ...

She looks at the realism of monkey and ape attacks against humans and other animals ... and communication skills of chimpanzees and bonobos in both "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" and "Rise ...

we humans have a lot in common with bonobos and the three other great apes—the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan. Compared to the lesser primates, such as monkeys and lemurs, we five "hominid ...