Chimpanzees and bonobos structure their social relationships in similar ways to humans, according to a new international ...

Recent research has shattered previous assumptions about primate social complexity, revealing that chimpanzees and bonobos ...

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 ...

A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely linked, anatomically, to human ancestors than common chimpanzees.

Scientists studying a 4.4-million-year-old fossil named Ardi may have uncovered the evolutionary step that turned ancient ...

Just like us, these apes invest most of their time in a few close friends while keeping looser ties with the rest.

The lynching, captured on video deep in the jungle, sheds light on the reality of the animals. Females exert power over males, who are larger and stronger, through a matriarchy woven with intense soci ...

Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, can tell when a human doesn’t know something and steps in to help — a cognitive ability never before identified in nonhuman apes, a study found.

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 ...

Learn more about the human tailbone and how, even though we may not have a strict need for it anymore, it still helps us with ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...