Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to ...

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

A recent experiment found that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and will often step in to help a human out. Host Marco Werman spoke with Chris Krupenye, an evolutionary cognitive ...

New research has revealed that bonobos and chimps can recognize when humans don’t know something, a skill once thought to be ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University studying bonobos found that they would point to where treats were hidden if they could see their human partner didn’t know where they were, according to ...

The bonobo could have the treat if Townrow could find it. Apes eagerly pointed out the location of treats to humans who didn't know where they were. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Whether or not ...

This cognitive process, known as “theory of mind,” enables humans to “cooperate ... a “seemingly simple experiment” with three bonobos sheltered at Ape Initiative: Teco, Nyota, and ...

The idiom “monkey see, monkey do” refers to someone copying an action without putting much thought into it. It literally lays the blame at a monkey’s feet, but a new study shows that bonobos will ...

Because bonobos are brainiacs, pinpointing the cup with the treat should have been no sweat. But there was a wrinkle: the apes were relying on a human, not another member of their own species ...