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

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 ...

At other times, he would not be able to see where the treat was, and the bonobo would point to the right cup to help ... is ...

If the bonobo had witnessed Townrow observing the ... But the new work is the first study to replicate similar behavior in a controlled setting. It also seems to show that apes “can ...

Bonobo apes are very similar to the more widely recognized chimpanzees—a smaller species of ape native to the Congo region of ...

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 ...

One bonobo even tapped the cup multiple times to ... Professor Cartmill explained, “Play is a behavior that builds social bonds among peers, which is accompanied by expressions such as ...

New research seems to suggest bonobos could possess some form of theory of mind. But there's a bit more to it than that.

At other times, he would not be able to see where the treat was, and the bonobo would point to the ... communicate with a partner to change their behavior,” Townrow said in the statement ...

If someone is supposed to give you a snack, but you know that they don’t know where that snack is, you ...