This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Video by @cincinnatizooDaisy the bonobo is already six months old! 🥰Due to multifaceted complications in the country, bonobos face several threats including habitat loss, and the illegal pet trade.

Male bonobos have an impressive ability to detect when females are most fertile, even though the usual visual cues are unreliable. Researchers tracking wild bonobos in the Congo discovered that males ...

If you’ve heard the common phrase, “Bonobos make love, not war,” you might wonder about the context behind this statement. Essentially, bonobos use sexual activity as a form of conflict resolution.

Bonobos studied with chimpanzees in research on empathy shared by humans and apes. Credit: Eric de Redelijkheid / CC BY-SA 2.0 New research from Durham University in the United Kingdom shows that ...

New research has provided insight into how bonobos and chimpanzees demonstrate empathy, challenging previous beliefs about their social behaviors. Scientists have long known that comforting distressed ...

Empathy is often seen as a defining human trait, woven into the fabric of our societies. It helps people cooperate, build friendships, and resolve conflicts. But empathy is not unique to humans.

NEW YORK (AP) — Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study finds. The year’s first meteor shower and supermoon clash in January skies Hubble Space ...

Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study finds. Along with chimpanzees, bonobos are among humans’ closest relatives. Scientists have long wondered ...

Females reign supreme in bonobo society by working together to keep males in their place. By Annie Roth Male domination is the natural order of things, some people say. But bonobos, primates with whom ...