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

Animal activists are pushing for 'Dexter's Law' in the upcoming Florida legislative session in honor of Dexter, a dog found decapitated shortly after it was adopted. A lot of people like to stop and ...

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

For their study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a bonobo would watch someone place a treat beneath one of three cups in proximity to Townrow.

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 ...

A cooperation experiment shows for the first time that animals, as well as people, are capable of communicating new information to their companions Kanzi, a bonobo who was part of the experiment, is ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that ...

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 ...

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

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While this unique animal behavior offers hope for reviving scarred alpine landscapes, the study’s authors caution that the overall pace of climate change outstrips many species’ ability to find ...

It would not be wrong to consider it a knotty question that has already perplexed many biologists and vet behaviorists. Luckily, many different research studies have been conducted on animals‘ sexual ...