If you’ve heard the common phrase, “Bonobos make love, not war,” you might wonder about the context behind this statement.

Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, appear to string together vocal calls in ways that mirror a key feature of the human language, a new study carried out in the forests of the Democratic ...

The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.

Bonobos – our closest living relatives – create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of humans. This study, conducted by researchers at the University of ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

Kanzi requests more frozen grapes. Des Moines’ Ape Initiative, as well as scientists and animal lovers around the world, are mourning the loss of Kanzi, the bonobo who became famous for his ...

Juvenile bonobo embraces a distressed companion during post-conflict consolation. Psychologists from Durham University, UK, observed the behaviour of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether ...

A new look into the private lives of chimpanzees has found that the primates settle disagreements with close friends by rubbing genitals together, a behavior previously that's commonly seen in their ...

An essay published in Live Science by Laura Geggel called "Chimps use 'hi' and 'bye' greetings, just like humans" caught my eye because of my interest in the different ways in which nonhuman animals ...

One sunny afternoon in San Diego, three-year-old Aisha played outside while her father sat nearby. Her father wasn’t paying much attention to her, so Aisha took a toy and waved it at him. When he didn ...