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.

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

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 that apes will communicate with a partner to change their behavior,” Townrow ...

Do mathematical skills that children acquire in the classroom transfer to real-world settings — and vice versa? Evidence from five large groups of children in India reveals that current school ...

A recent experiment found that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and will often step in to help a human out. Host Marco Werman spoke with Chris Krupenye, an evolutionary cognitive ...

The bonobo watches as a human places a reward under one of the ... The team plans to investigate further: Now that they know apes can communicate to change others' behavior based on knowledge, they ...

An experiment shows that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and point them in the right direction ...

The study provides clear evidence that apes can intuit another's ignorance, a trait once thought uniquely human.

Nyota, a bonobo from the Ape Initiative ... These differing perspectives allow us to understand behavior and coordinate effectively. In this study, explains Christopher Krupenye, bonobos had to ...

One bonobo sat across a table from Townrow ... Are they simply trying to influence their partner’s behavior, or do they understand that they are changing someone else’s thoughts? “What we’ve shown ...

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.