Psychologists from Durham University, UK, have observed the behavior of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether bonobos were more likely than chimpanzees to comfort others in distress. The study ...

Babies seem to have a language all their own. They make some weird noise, and based on context, you’re supposed to know what it means. Babies, and some of the rest of us in our less proud moments, are ...

Like many electronic producers who are also active DJs, Bonobo is used to test-driving work in progress, relying on a constant feedback loop between the studio and the club to sharpen the peaks and ...

It was millions of years ago that humans, chimpanzees and bonobos split off in different evolutionary directions. Now, new research suggests that bonobos — not chimps, as widely presumed — may be the ...

On 60 Minutes this week, Anderson Cooper travels to Africa and meets a remarkable group of Congolese women caring for baby bonobos at a sanctuary on the outskirts of Kinshasa known as Lola Ya Bonobo, ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there's an effort to save one of humankind's closest living relatives: the bonobo. This benefits the animals, brain research and the economy of the DRC. The ...

The great apes are the closest living relatives to humans. We share over ninety-eight percent of our DNA with some species of these creatures, and it’s valuable to think of ourselves as being more ...

A new study of tool use in bonobos suggests females of this great ape species are handier than males. That's also been seen in chimpanzees, but it was thought that chimps could be an aberration.

With an uneasy peace in bonobo territory, conservationists and our writer ventured up the Congo River and its tributaries in search of bonobos that have survived the conflict. Paul Raffaele Biologist ...