Des Moines’ Ape Initiative, as well as scientists and animal lovers around the world, are mourning the loss of Kanzi, the ...

Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa ...

Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

Giraffes, particularly males, are known for "necking," a form of homosexual behaviour where they rub their necks against each ...

When we think of the wild, images of majestic creatures roaming freely often come to mind. However, beyond their survival ...

We compared their sexual behavior with a group of bonobos slightly over 1,000 miles away at the Lola Ya Bonobo sanctuary, near Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Chimps and bonobos ...

Bonobos, in particular ... To better understand this behavior, the scientists observed these two species in sanctuaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, at specific times ...

Bonobos, often seen as the “make love, not war” apes, are famous for using sexual behavior to smooth over conflicts. Chimps, on the other hand, have been characterized as more aggressive ...

While it’s no surprise that humans don’t only have sex to reproduce, this study highlights a similar pattern in our closest ape cousins, offering a window into how this behavior might have evolved in ...

The research team challenged these assumptions by directly comparing the sexual behavior between bonobos and chimpanzees for the first time. “By directly comparing the two species in similar ...

In the first comparative study of sexual behavior among chimpanzees and bonobos, a team of researchers led by Durham University has observed how in times of social stress, both species will use ...

Now researchers, led by Durham University, UK, have undertaken what is thought to be one of the first direct comparisons of sexual behavior among bonobos and chimpanzees during periods of social ...