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

The field assistants said, ‘This is an aggression.’ And I was like, ‘Wait, where is the peaceful bonobo in this?’” Mouginot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...