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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The work clearly showed that the bonobos could tell when their human partner was ignorant. Now you see it... The experimental approach is quite simple and involves a setup familiar to street ...

Ever since a giant gorilla scaled the Empire State Building with a beautiful damsel in his hand in 1933's King Kong, ...