A first-of-its-kind study suggests bonobos, like humans, can understand someone else’s lack of knowledge—and adjust their ...

Suddenly the calm was shattered by shrieks as one bonobo chased another from the same group in an act of wild aggression. “You can feel the violence,” she recalls. “One is really unhappy ...

By Shanna Hanbury Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, can tell when a human doesn’t know something and steps in to ...

World Bonobo Day highlights the urgent need to protect bonobos from habitat destruction, poaching, and deforestation.

But the bonobo’s behavior in the wild has been harder to know, and Takayoshi Kano, operating out of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, was among the first scientists aspiring to ...

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to ...

The bonobo, named Teco, who tended to point at the food a lot in all circumstances, also reminded us of another caution: ...

People are constantly looking at the behavior of others and coming up with ideas about ... During each experimental trial, Townrow sat across from one bonobo, who was in an enclosure, but looking ...

Caption Female bonobos at Wamba, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kyoto University primatologists report in Animal Behaviour that older bonobo females frequently aid younger females when males behave ...

People are constantly looking at the behavior of others and coming up with ... During each experimental trial, Townrow sat across from one bonobo, who was in an enclosure, but looking through ...