As humans, we share many characteristics with bonobos, who together with chimpanzees are the ape species that are most closely related to us. There are a lot of similarities in our social ...

Researchers believe that by analyzing bonobo calls, they will gather more insights about the evolution of language.

Humans gravitated to the emotional images of people they knew more frequently, whereas the bonobos were more drawn to the emotions of strangers. These findings may provide more insight into human ...

Bonobos grow similarly to humans Growth spurts during puberty are not unique in evolutionary terms Date: August 24, 2023 Source: Deutsches Primatenzentrum (DPZ)/German Primate Center Summary ...

While humans enjoy sharing food, this is rarely the case with bonobos, as Barbara Fruth, group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, has observed.

Bonobos combine their calls in a complex way that forms distinct phrases, a sign that this type of syntax is more evolutionarily ancient than previously thought. Human language, often described as ...

Humans retain an understanding of gestures made by other great apes, even though we no longer use them ourselves, according to a study by Kirsty E. Graham and Catherine Hobaiter at the University ...

Bonobos make friends outside their group and help each other like humans – study The findings challenge the view that only humans are capable of forming strategic alliances, researchers have said.

Delayed gratification — the ability to sacrifice an immediate reward for a more valuable one in the future — can tell us a ...

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 help.

All this suggests that the last common ancestor of chimpanzees, bonobos and humans likely also produced compositional structures. "Compositionality is very common in human language.

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 help.