To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

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

A new study shows that bonobos seem to know a little bit about what's going on in a human companion's mind, and will try to ...

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 ...

Similar behaviour has been observed at this site before when, following the killing of a female colobus monkey, a bonobo kept her orphaned infant for several days. Christian is a photojournalist and ...